I just had the strangest experience with "Brave"
They wanted me to allow 'google' to store all my posts, data, passwords, etc.
I declined and then I couldn't get back on AU.
Just wound up in an endless loop regarding 'cookies'
So, as a temporary measure, I changed to 'Internet Explorer' and am back - no problem.

Brave is google and google is Brave. I use it because it eliminates all youtube commercials. But yeah it's fuckin google at the end of the day.

Yes, you're right. So when Google wanted total control of my data, and I declined, they made it so that I couldn't get on AU.
I was thinking about it and I went to a Google "help" page where I could check off the different "services" google offered.
And right after I declined all, AU was blocked.
Censorship?
No it seems even worse.
Also, I had to guess which way to toggle the answers because their little buttons didn't say which was accept and which was to decline.
I guessed the decline switch and obviously I was right!
Brave was ok when I was first using it. They sold out.

I have brave and it asks you of you would like to use Brave, duckduckgo or google as your public and or private browser. There is a couple of others to choose from as well. But I just keep it on Brave.