Please offer some proof that Google does more surveillance than Brave.

I mean, just the fact that they track your location would put their surveillance way ahead of Brave, no?

Assuming that's a good faith question (I'm skeptical), let's click through some random HN headlines and use uMatrix to count how many requests for Javascript and other garbage are being made to Google servers, and how many are made to Brave's servers.

First off: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/mastering-stratego-the-classic...

By my count that has two requests to googleapis.com, one to gstatic.com, and one to googletagmanager, but none to any Brave sites.

Next up: https://www.thefire.org/news/free-speech-culture-elon-musk-a...

Requests googletagmanager, but nothing from Brave.

Next: https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2022/11/30/understanding-c...

Makes requests to googletagmanager ang googleapis.com. Brave completely missing.

And: https://twitter.com/coinbasewallet/status/159835481973503180...

Sends requests to google-analytics.com, but Brave is a no show again

And finally: https://jakespracher.medium.com/machines-and-chaos-9f0e87eeb...

Which uses google-analytics, but nothing from Brave.

Practically every commercial website on the internet has Google spyware tied in somehow. And just to spell it out, every time your browser sends a request to one of the Google servers, they're keeping track and surveiling you.

Google has the data on most credit card transactions in the US. Transactions that do not go through Google at all. They are tracking the crap out of you everywhere