Who cares? As liberal I'm sick of the mellow-dramatic outrage culture. People aren't perfect. Who knew? If you don't use brave what's the alternative? Google, who is much worse? Maybe "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and stop using the lefts social capital to alien people over small personal gripes.
I notice people who write these types of articles never open themselves to the same sort of scrutiny.
Firefox is probably the best alternative but I agree about people looking for flaws. We are all flawed to same degree. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to have the same opinions about things as yourself.
But that being said, if you find those opinions to be extreamly offensive, don't use their products. I'm off Google almost completely for that reason. I despise them and am actively telling people to stop using them.