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LOL! Almost made me spit out my coffee laughing. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

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Looking through issues (and linked issues), it appears there might be a sequencing requirement. Someone could add the updater as a dependency of the main browser manifest. If installing the updater before the browser works, that would be my suggestion to get the browser and the updater.

I haven't dug into this, but I see the fun you've been having. Is the Brave updater a separate application, or is it somehow getting configured during the "typical" install flow? Is Brave maintaining the manifest when they release or is it the WinGet community?