This isn't such an outrageous assumption to make here.
You're just spreading FUD unless you have evidence that Brave funnels usage data in secret.
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...
But at least with Brave, the initial funding information was made public, so there's already more information available to users in comparison with Mozilla. Mozilla just said: "there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners" - that could mean literally anyone.