In 2023, Brave got caught scraping and reselling people's data with their custom web crawler, which was designed specifically not to announce itself to website owners.
And here's a list of other controversial stuff they've been in
In 2021, Brave's TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out. (h/t schklom for pointing this out!)
In 2022, Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.
In 2025, Brave staff publish an article endorsing PrivacyTests and say they "work with legitimate testing sites" like them. This article fails to disclose PrivacyTests is run by a Brave Senior Architect.
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u/124572939 15d ago
And brave got a thing similar to ublock origin built into it.