I just disabled the auto updates for Chrome in Terminal on my Mac - there are numerous links online describing this process for all operating systems. I’m hoping that that may apply to Brave or Dissenter which are built on the Chromium platform. Either way, I’m sure there is a method to do that. Of course they will tie “security updates” into other browser functionality, so disabling them are not the best long term fix. I’d guess that it’s just Google with a strangled hold on internet browser technology and development…like they have a stranglehold on information and web freedom that we’ve surrendered them - not that we had a choice.