Avoid brave. It' s spyware. If any, Chromium-Ungoogle with the settings from:
git clone git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters
Copy the file in the chromium subdir to /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh. Chmod +x it. Change CHROMIUM_FLAGS to UNGOOGLED_CHROMIUM_FLAGS or whatever flag shows up in /usr/bin/ungoogled-chromium script.
That and UBlock Origin with the country specific ad blocking rules will cut down a good bunch of crap.
The GitHub repo I posted has sane defaults for both Chromium based browsers (adapt the environment variable for the custom fork, you have it at /usr/bin/chrom file) and Mozilla under *Nix. If something "clean" as Mozilla has a good chunk to be tweaked, just imagine the amount of telemetry Brave has.
I lived the 90's and 00's in computing. I pretty surely know the spyware and adware terms. And Brave it's spyware, period.
That and UBlock Origin with the country specific ad blocking rules will cut down a good bunch of crap.