Brave is crapware and always has been.

If you actually care about privacy rather than want to pay lip service to some marketing, then there are better options.

Care to share the best options? I'm interested.

On KDE, “Falkon”. On GNOME, “Web”.

On Macs, Safari.

On all platforms, Firefox. Firefox is a little disppointing in that it’s still bundled with stuff you probably don’t want, but it’s far far less objectionable than Chrome, Edge, Brave.

   On Macs, Safari

Could you inform me how to get uBlock Origin working on Safari? Or any other adblocker that isn’t a joke?

AdGuard for Safari is free and well respected. (And GPL3, if that floats your boat.) https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari

1Blocker is also well respected, but not free.

If uBlock Origin is a hard requirement, Firefox is available for the Mac.