Fyi: duck duck go is just a search engine, like google, ask, bing ect... Brave has search engine that does not index Google, unless you want it to. I use brave search on all my browsers. Search engine is not the browser. Brave, edge, chrome, vivaldi, opera are all browsers based on chromium (google base code) firefox has its own thing goin thats why i tested it as well. They all access AU just fine after i cleaned brave.
Note: i rarely use my phone but simply clearing all data and cache for Brave app made AU run just fine on it. Most people have phne apps set up to "keep data backed up" this is why a simple reinstall may not work on phones. Need clean install.

If you have phone set up to "keep app data backed up" this mean google backs up ALL data related to the app. Yes, even malware. That is 1 thing i can give apple, they scan backed up data for malware, google does not. So on Android, setting is on by default i believe, when you uninstall and reinstall it just reloads bad data. I keep this setting off. I learned this fron tech support on Verizon back when i had hacked phone. I bought new phone and had same issues when i signed into my goog acc. First thing i turn off on all phones now. I can scan local backups myself on computer if i need to keep any data.
Tech is a pain in muh ass lol

THAT was awesome I am not techie at all. I have chrome then. My husband just redid Brave and suggested I log in on his computor and see how AU works with it for me. Thanks again!

I have used Firefox, MS edge, and brave. Brave was my main but when au went to new version, it was terrible. Spent a day combing through my computer. Found some registry keys that probably were no good. Deleted all files associated with brave and reinstalled. After doing that i see no difference in browsers other than Firefox is a tad slower and edge is tad faster than brave. I use brave search on all browsers.

Mahalos, I am going to check out edge.🙏