I have used Brave now for a few years after FireFox outing as Woke. Brave is great. I’ve used their VPN - very good.
It’s not ‘really Chrome’ - Google separated out their ‘Chromium Engine’ a number of years back and it’s public domain - Brave and Microsoft’s Edge and Google Chrome are based on it. But yes, Brave does a great job of being NOT Google.
Btw, I haven’t tried their Talk, but another engineer said it’s way better than MS or Zoom - maybe a little bit less smooth as Google’s Meet.
Thanks for that info. I’ll definitely be trying Talk!