They are still against gay marriage
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Because not every app you download needs to know all of your information
Possibly because it is not open source and doesn't have anything to offer that the other recommendations do not.
You can view "Brave ads" in exchange for crypto. That is what I meant by replacing ads.
trustworthy
They are recommended on privacy guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#brave-search I generally trust privacy guides, although I don't use Brave Search.
CEO
Their CEO is anti-vax and homophobic. Brave Browser (not search) has had some controversy around including crypto, replacing ads with their own, and having had inserted affiliate links into the URL bar in the past.
censor stuff
Hard to say, the job of a search engine is to show you what you want to find.
data collection
There is telemetry that can be turned off.
Most of the things they have available to purchase, you could research and do on your own. Offering the crypto stuff is also off putting, since crypto (except for perhaps Monero) is not really private.
You could block them and the emails will be sent to your spam folder.
AnySoftKeyboard is FOSS and supports gesture typing. It has not been updated in a while and I find it buggy.
Helium314's OpenBoard fork is FOSS but supports Google's proprietary gesture typing library.
FlorisBoard is FOSS and supports gesture typing, but does not have word predictions. It is being worked on.
OpenBoard (specifically the fork by Helium314 that supports gesture typing) is what I prefer.
I primarily use DuckDuckGo, and occasionally have to use a !bang to get to the Startpage or Google.
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In general, you should use as few as possible.
On FireFox browser, the best privacy extension is uBlock Origin. I wouldn't use any other extension for ad blocking or privacy unless it is for something specific you need that uBlock Origin cannot do on its own. NoScript is another privacy extension that is sometimes recommended.
There may also be some benefit to using the extension for your password manager, as it may help you identify phishing links and prevent you from filling in your password on fake or scam sites. I strongly recommend Bitwarden as a password manager.
Installing extensions is unlikely to help you defend against fingerprinting. If you are concerned about fingerprinting, then you should enable resist.fingerprint in the about:config on FireFox, or use either Tor or Mullvad Browser (which you should not install any extensions on).