Mozilla has been distracted by a million shiny things around them. They've been mismanaged almost criminally and they have changed their terms of service to be much less privacy-oriented than they used to be.
In my humble opinion, Brave gets far too much hate on this site and is actually the best browser made today in terms of open source availability, a focus on privacy and empowerment of the end user, while maximizing site compatibility.
Isn't Brave's main source of revenue serving you ads based on information collected about you from while using their browser?
also this - like Brave being inundated with crypto shit and now AI shit isn't them hopping on every last fad as fast as possible?
it's also wild to me how many people default to citing FireFox when there are open-source, privacy-focused forks like LibreWolf, Tor Browser, and Mullvad Browser out there, all of which blow Brave out of the water for privacy by their own admission on that privacytests.org site (that one of their staff engs owns)
I've switched fully to Meta's Muse for all of my research going forward.