As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of "melting snowflakes" the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to "trigger" people that would prefer an inhabitable environment. 
Even better is the money-man early backer of Brave was Peter Theil. Peter Theil is the reactionary alt-right billionaire who founded the CIA In-Q-Tel backed Palantir, a company infamous for selling big-brother-as-a-service to the US nat-sec apparatus. I don't trust anything he has his fingers in, especially if it is claiming to be selling you privacy while browsing the Internet. It's just like how Elon Musk, another billionaire who like Theil was raised apartheid South Africa, claims to be promoting freedom and privacy by buying Twiter.
If you care about privacy and an open web, stick with Mozilla Firefox and avoid honeypots like Brave.
Programming.dev chuds in the Lemmy federation want to "melt snowflakes" a lot more than they actually care about privacy and they're fine with walled gardens on the internet if they think they will have the keys to them.