Is there a web browser based on Brave but without the crypto scam features?
Take a look at Vivaldi and see if it's what you're looking for. Broadly, Brave is pro-privacy and pro-crypto while Vivaldi is pro-privacy and anti-crypto.
Vivaldi is forked from Chromium directly rather than from Brave, but the similar pro-privacy stances mean that they remove or mitigate many of the same features. E.g. both disable FLOC, both have built-in ad-blockers, and both have committed to maintaining compatibility with ad-block extensions broken by Manifest V3. For what it's worth, Vivaldi is closed-source.
Brave's paywall-bypassing news article viewer is tops. Does Vivaldi have that? I love Brave save for the crypto nonsense.
Add the Bypass Paywalls extension, it works on Firefox and Chromium. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome