The article manages to get nearly everything wrong, impressively It has been shared across the Web over the last few days, so we have provided responses here and there. You can see my 3-comment response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552530.
For a review of Brave (and how it compares in terms of privacy), I would suggest seeking out more competent sources, such as scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf, which found Brave to exist in its own class as the “most private” browser tested.