The Brave browser strives to be an independent browser, neither controlled by Google, nor by Microsoft, nor by any other evil mega-corp like Amazon or Facebook. Unfortunately, it still keeps asking the user to update it, and does not give the option to reject the update without extra tweaking. (As reminder to corporations and developers: no means no. There is no "maybe later". It's a flat out no.)

Unfortunately, Brave makes it difficult to tell it that no, the user does not want whatever is being asked. Fortunately, there is a way to fix it if the user is tech-savvy, by following these steps:

1. Launch the Terminal

2. Type this: cd /Applications/Brave\ Browser.app/Contents/Frameworks/Brave\ Browser\ Framework.framework/Versions/83.1.10.93/Frameworks/Sparkle.framework/Versions/A/Resources/

3. Then this: mv Autoupdate.app/ Autoupdate.app.OLD

4. Open Brave, go to the three-stripe “burger” menu and select About Brave, you should be able to see the following message:

Update failed (error: 11)

Error details:
An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later.

5. Quit the terminal, you’re done

Hopefully these steps help some users to not uninstall Brave and still keep using it for some time, despite how rude the browser is to the users.