As usual in the comments, programming.dev chuds care a whole lot about performatively not caring and get enraged at the thought of other people caring, thus the advocacy for Brave Browser entirely on the basis of “melting snowflakes” the way thumbheads roll coal because they want to “trigger” people that would prefer an inhabitable environment. 
Just use Firefox with ublock origin. Maybe get a VPN if you’re serious about anonymous browsing. There’s rapidly diminishing returns in obsessing over privacy tools compared to changing your browsing habits.
Indeed. You have to consider your threat profile. Most data harvesting isn’t aimed at you per-se, you’re just in the target audience.
If you’re just trying to be a responsible citizen who’se reasonably informed and likes their privacy. A decent browser, blocker, and VPN will protect you from 99% of casual grift & grime.
Unless you’re planning something that’ll get you assigned an Agent somewhere, in which case you should log off and not talk around electronics at all.
somewhat concerned that with the increasing rise of blatant fascism in the US the definition of a “threat” worth keeping an eye on will become a group me and most other cool left wing people will be included in
It’s even worse than diminishing returns—the more privacy extensions and add-ons you install the more identifiable you are through browser fingerprinting