I’ve used both. For a while I used Opera exclusively and now I;ve gone back to it because it has some nice features including a built-in free VPN. As the net has grown more dangerous, using a free built-in VPN seems like a no-brainer. Opera has a large area for most-used websites where you just hit the icon. Some other browsers have copied this.
Brave never knocked my socks off although the white paper at inception showed it was going to be a user-centered browser. I wound up using it for going to sketchy websites on reddit to get access to NBA games for free.
Oh, very good to know that about Opera and the VPN. I will give it a good look later.
So, Brave does not come with a VPN?