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Oh boy. This is a topic where you pretty much can only lose no matter what you say because everyone has a different opinion. Here's mine.
Imo both are good browsers but they both have their advantages and disadvantages. From my experience Firefox uses telemetry more than Brave when I look at the DNS logs. It needs more tuning to be (more) privacy respecting. Brave does a better job out of the box.
On the other hand there's uBlock Origin. You might have heard of Manifest v3 which is going to kill uBO for all Chromium based browsers. Yes, Brave has its own adblocker but it's not as good as uBO and I doubt it ever will be. Also uBO offers better protection in Firefox than in Chromium based browsers. Though I'm not sure how relevant this is now since the article is over two years old.
I do have to say that I think most people trust Firefox (or Mozilla) too much. Maybe Mozilla respects your privacy more than other browser developers but I still don't think they are very trustworthy. The problem is that you don't have much of a choice. Either you trust any browser developer or you go off of the internet or you develop your own browser.
So for now you're fine with either browser but when there will be no support for Manifest v3 on Chromium based browsers anymore you should go with Firefox. Firefox is never a bad choice, even now.
How so? Why is that?
There are many reasons. One of the reasons is this sneaky one.
Then there's more than enough telemetry Mozilla makes use of in Firefox you need to disable in about:config where most users don't even look. Lookup the following options:
Everytime you start Firefox it sends your location to Mozilla. Lookup these options:
These are just a few things Mozilla does and pretty much nobody talks about because they are considered trustworthy. But let's be real here: Trust is good, control is better. That's why I made some research about Mozilla and found out about the above things.