>I don't see how any self-respecting Hacker could choose anything else
Brave and Vivaldi strike me as being at least not worse.
I thought that brave was caught injecting affiliate links. That alone makes it worse than anything mozilla has done.
Edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1ebbeas/why_...
Those 2 browsers used a rendering engine developed by Google. It would not be wrong to consider them partial chromium reskins with all the technical dependency it entails.
They're built on Chromium, they still reinforce the Chromium monoculture and expand Google's influence.