Brave is just a reskinned Chrome anyway. Even Chromium has built in telemetry.

Firefox is the only independent browser. Even Edge is Chrome these days.

We need to support Firefox. Unfortunately it's dying more and more every year

That article you're talking about isn't about brave as a browser. It was a out the brave search engine.

For me, the switch to Firefox from brave came on when they made it so that you had to get an account with a kyc crypto exchange to use brave rewards. It wasn't necessarily the change itself, but the gravitational pull down to earth that made me realize that no matter what features brave puts in there browser, they will always be a for profit Corporation that doesn't have my interests in mind.

That's the thing - I am willing to try new things, like new browsers, but I get spooked when I encounter things like this.

I, too, was using Brave's browser and search engine on my phone when I heard about their shady actions. So I stopped using them and now am pretty much just using Firefox with DDG as the default search engine and have uBlock Origin and another adblock add on. I don't even know if having two ad blockers is redundant.

I'm willing to trade some privacy for a useful free service or convenience but I don't even know how much is too much on the privacy spectrum.

You are aware that as a user of Brave it doesn't affect you? If not, you've only read the title and if you read the article and didn't understand how it affects you, you could have asked. I didn't understand and asked and knowledge people answered. That's why we're here. We can learn from each other.

Well, you read misinformation then.