content: From what i've seen Brave has an active shilling campaign that targets /g/ and blogposters which explains it, however there others  who are somehow clouded in such a huge denial, i don't even know how to start explaining that a browser with google as the default engine is not private at all. You just have to think: if a browser has an anti-privacy search engine by default it means that its developer put convenience above privacy (exactly what you're trying to avoid) from which there are two possibilities, either he knows jack shit about privacy (in this case you simply can't rely on someone so incompetent) or he is actively working against privacy (exactly what's happening right now).