Yeah, all web browsers seem to have some junk in them these days. The regular Brave browser has a lot of unnecessary stuff, similar to Microsoft Edge. The cleanest or best free browser outside of 'Microsoft Edge' I’ve tried so far is Opera Air. It still has some bloat, but nowhere near as much as Brave browser, for example.

I have been using Firefox for years.

I'd trust open source stuff on github more then closed source binaries from Microsoft.

No longer connected to the Sony downward spiral