You could always just not do it any say nothing. It might just get forgotten, though more likely that eventually your manager will explicitly ask you to do it and they might have reasonable grounds for dismissal if you explicitly refuse. As others have said it’s probably not the worst thing in the world compared to your job!
I don’t think the author is trying to be biased, but if you actually work on the code of one browser then you will (consciously or otherwise) write tests that focus on the same issues you consider when developing it.
Also I doubt Brave would let one of their employees run a website that didn’t paint it in a good light!
If I recall correctly from the last time I saw this posted, the problem with projects like this that they rely heavily on very small teams making sure that every security update gets included from upstream, often not a simple task. Privacy from Microsoft is important but if you’re running an insecure OS then you may as well not have privacy from anyone.
The government isn’t forking out to put cameras everywhere though. There are a few in city centres which I’d imagine local councils have to pay for, most are installed by private businesses just to protect their own property.
That’s a pretty short-sighted read on the UK. We have serious issues with the Tories trying to undermine encryption, but the fact that there are a lot of 30-year-old non-networked CCTV cameras attached to businesses and residences is not really an issue.