Because Brendan Eich is the current CEO of Brave Software Inc.
You still haven't explained how I'm lining anyone's pockets by using Brave.
let everyone else make the choices they want!
That's... exactly what I'm doing? The entire reason I'm here is because someone was spreading blatant lies about the browser they don't like. I want people to find what they actually want to use, not be driven away.
Epiphany and Falkon, Qutebrowser
All suffer from the same issue of not being chromium based. Qutebrower is my goto minimalist browser though, IMO beats out the other 2 by far.
And the ad-blocking isn't the point, I don't know why you keep bringing it up.