Incidentally, I like the idea of the affiliate link behavior if it was opt-in. I'd opt into it, if it really provided some trickle of funding back to Brave.

Brave is my favorite browser. It's the best web experience out of the box. No digging into settings to specify my default search engine (DuckDuckGo), ads are blocked by default without having to turn on extensions (which I see as an attack vector).