This place is full of people who are "always right" and consider themselves exemplary. I hardly believe they would be able to be so aggressively vocal in real life. Just block them and go on with your life.
That's bullshit. Please, educate yourself instead of writing nonsense. Or just show me the exact place in the code where the "mining" is performed. I'll wait.
I don't care what people think or about internet dramas. Brave for me is the sweet spot right now: FOSS, fast, amazing inbuilt adblocker which can't be limited by Google and everything I don't need to use ('bloat') is opt-in and simply stays out of my way.
My second choice would be Vivaldi, but I feel like the ad blocker and isolation is generally weaker.
Kagi Summarizer (not FOSS, though).