If you don't trust Brave, how would that be any better if they were using Firefox as the base for their browser over Chromium?

It’s just confusing because then your original comment is a non-sequitur, not particularly relevant to the context of the discussion about trusting Brave on FF vs Brave on Chromium, because, as you say, if you don’t trust Brave then the base doesn’t matter.

There isn’t any whataboutism in the post you are replying to.

No, you didn't go back to my original post, which said I don't trust Google. My apology was about the language I used.

I still don't understand why you would prefer if Brave was based on Firefox instead of Chrome. One of your comments sounds like you're worried about Brave inserting tracking. Brave could do that regardless of what it's based on.

No, we rip out Google's tracking and insert nothing.

Brave Ads are opt-in and client-based. There is no server side tracking of users or data in the clear. I can say more on how all this works, but I will pause here. Search for "catalog" elsewhere to find another comment explaining it a bit more.