I'm aware that Brave is a for-profit company, this must not necessarily mean that they'll do evil things. And if they would and Mozilla is no longer around, this could also be because Google stopped funding them.

Mozilla may be a non-profit but there’s a saying: “non profit doesn’t mean they don’t make money”.

It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.

> Firefox [...] has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket

"Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) :

> On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be leveraged as part of an ongoing "Context Graph" project.[6] There are plans to open-source the server-side code of Pocket,[11][12][13] with more than 50 repositories already available on the company's GitHub account, including their iOS app.

I stand partially corrected! Didn’t realize they were acquired but they are still using pocket for revenue.

In fact, this little nugget supports my original post: “the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group”

Pocket has been acquired by Mozilla a few years ago.