I don't use Brave anymore, I'm on Safari full-time. Sometimes I switch to Edge/Firefox/Brave if I need to test something I'm working on, or I need better dev tools.
DuckDuckGo is also my default search engine, but if I'm in the middle of working on a development project I almost always have to add !g
to redirect to a Google search, since Google seems to do a better job of indexing StackOverflow, GitHub Issues/Discussions, etc.
Just found out about your 'Security Checklist' and saw that you use most of the services mentioned there (Cloudflare DNS, 1Password, Brave). Do you also use a 'privacy-first email provider' and a 'privacy-first search engine'? Couldn't find them mentioned anywhere else on the blog.