Brave funded by Peter Thiel's VC firm

I want to be very careful about using services and software backed by venture capital, especially Thiel’s Founders Fund. For me, VC-backed companies almost always tend to lean toward enshittification for the goal of bigger ROI (return on investment). Brave is something I have fights with myself over - the browser itself is really good, their integrated content blocker is comparable with uBlock Origin, and their account-less sync feature is amazing, too. But the VC aspect, the side business with Web3 and cryptocurrency, and the history of their CEO always leave a sour taste in my mouth when I do use it. But also the work on their rust-adblock project and their interest in seeing Linux move forward (from what I’ve understood when Brave Origin, the paid debloated version of Brave, began circulating) make me believe that there are good people working to makectually good software and trying to steer Brave in a good direction. I guess only time will tell. But I think the pain of migrating away wouldn’t be too big if it ever becomes necessary. There are a lot of promising Chromium forks, the most interesting one being the Helium browser, that are worth watching.