Of course Brave is bad. But if Google isn't crypto-fascist, i don't know what is. They are an integral part of the military industrial complex and are very cozy with governments worldwide. They are also working on the "technopolice" and promoting AI with all of its shortcomings and biases. About search results, specifically, they are based on a secret ranking sauce privileging bad-quality content... i don't know about english language result, but whatever political topic you lookup for, neo-fascist conspiracy websites (égalité et réconciliation, fdesouche...) are always in the top5 results. How could you defend them?

DuckDuckGo is just a meta-engine and stores little information. Whatever appears in Bing (and maybe others) is what will appear in DuckDuckGo.