These are all true but the browser is open source. When they say "we don't do that" (even if the stuff is in the gui) I don't have to take their word for it. I can check it.
And yet the closed-source Safari is less scummy than open-source Brave. "I can check myself" is, for the vast majority of people, a purely theoretical option. Even if you happen to be a C++ wizard, diving into a 65k+ files code base is not done over a weekend.
