Brave does not properly pin to task managers in KDE Plasma

Description of the issue: On KDE Plasma (I’m using the Linux version of Brave, sourced from the .deb file), one would reasonably expect that pinning Brave would result in a shortcut you can click and launch Brave and have the newly opened task exist under the same icon. However, the result of this is a new, second icon on the taskbar:
Duplicate icons
Attempting to pin this icon results in a blank icon, and clicking this icon does launch Brave and the proper Brave icon replaces the blank one, however my system is frozen for a good few seconds.
Empty icon

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Launch Brave (yup, that’s all)

Expected result: Brave launches and is able to be properly pinned to my task manager (analogous to the Windows taskbar.)

Brave Version: v1.69.162

Additional Information: None I can really offer, I want to switch this instant but not being able to do something as simple as this is kinda not a good showing. I don’t know if Brave is creating a new class for the window it launches, or if the .desktop file my distribution installs could be at fault but it does look identical to other browsers I have installed. Launching brave-bin from the terminal does not create a duplicate, but pinning what it creates results in the blank icon.

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