Eich resigned. He doesn't like people saying he was fired.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12590287

Nobody likes to say he is fired (it's bad when looking for a new job).

No company likes to say publicly it fired someone (it's bad for hiring new people).

No, it's not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027

This one is not privacy violation although it’s significant misbehaving. Thanks for sharing!

Brave has plenty of deliberate "misbehaving" and therefore is not to be trusted.