diff --git a/scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh b/scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh
index be29e2fce2..687701a3dc 100755
--- a/scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh
+++ b/scripts/desktop-update/posix.sh
@@ -171,20 +171,22 @@ publish() { # terminal event -- the page must render it before teardown
 
 find_browser() {
   local c
-  # No Microsoft Edge, on purpose: Edge's OS-level Microsoft-account
-  # integration signs a fresh throwaway profile into the user's MSA and
-  # renders its own "syncing your data" notification — MSA email included —
-  # inside this window that is titled "Hermes" (#88410). The throwaway
-  # --user-data-dir below cannot block it; the other Chromium-family
-  # browsers carry no OS account integration into a fresh profile.
+  # No Microsoft Edge and no Brave, on purpose. Edge's OS-level
+  # Microsoft-account integration signs a fresh throwaway profile into the
+  # user's MSA and renders its own "syncing your data" notification — MSA
+  # email included — inside this window that is titled "Hermes" (#88410).
+  # Brave paints its own P3A privacy-notice bar over the progress page in
+  # the same window — cramped to unreadability at the shim's small size
+  # (#88682). The throwaway --user-data-dir below cannot block either; the
+  # remaining Chromium-family browsers carry no first-run chrome of their
+  # own into a fresh profile.
   if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ]; then
     for c in "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" \
-             "/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium" \
-             "/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser"; do
+             "/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium"; do
       [ -x "$c" ] && { echo "$c"; return; }
     done
   else
-    for c in google-chrome google-chrome-stable chromium chromium-browser brave-browser; do
+    for c in google-chrome google-chrome-stable chromium chromium-browser; do
       command -v "$c" 2>/dev/null && return
     done
   fi