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For the love of god, just shut the fuck up. You have obviously never even bothered to start Brave even once and just repeat the same year old FUD like a stupid parrot.
None of what you they there is true. Brave by default, freshly started on a new profile, will block ads and not show its own ads.
If you want to look at Brave's own ads, which are send via notifications and do not replacing any existing ads in websites, you have to manually click the Brave Reward icon and click through another few dialogs to enable them.
That "shitcoin" is used to pay you and allows you to funnel that ad money into sites you actually care about. It's also completely optional.
And Firefox, which is financed to 85% by Google, isn't? And as for Firefox and ads: