@cowboyup DuckDuckGo is also a good option.

Went through the post and saw this comment -

Brave blocked them, people complained as it broke an sdk which fb uses for oauth (login to some sites). Same issue on Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226498

connect.facebook.com is for the Facebook JS SDK.

We actually do block Facebook requests explicitly used for tracking:

https://github.com/brave/adblock-lists/blob/f25b698aff4666bbd6a6038ec029855e971b57cc/brave-unbreak.txt#L41

https://github.com/brave/adblock-lists/blob/f25b698aff4666bbd6a6038ec029855e971b57cc/brave-unbreak.txt#L42

https://github.com/brave/adblock-lists/blob/f25b698aff4666bbd6a6038ec029855e971b57cc/brave-unbreak.txt#L43

Not sure if you should really be concerned about it.