From the article:
"I know for a fact that Wikipedia operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which explicitly states that if you’re going to use the data, you must give attribution. As far as search engines go, they can get away with it because linking back to a Wikipedia article on the same page as the search results is considered attribution.
But in the case of Brave, not only are they disregarding the license - they’re also charging money for the data and then giving third parties “rights” to that data."
I used Brave for quite a while after having some kind of problem with mobile firefox. It got worse and worse the whole time, it defaults to a home screen with ads on it now. I assumed they got bought out or something a while ago. Sad to say but not really shocked that they’re doing some kind of aggressive data collection.