https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology
This is how I feel too. Rather a locked-down polished UNIX system than Windows.
I can never trust them again after they got caught injection their own affiliate codes in URLs
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology