I understand the reason for https over http, but if i explicitly want http for whatever reason, i should be able to use that, right? Isn’t this all about freedom of choice?
So on iOS this is what happens:
Search engine is set to http (you cannot do this straight from the iOS browser, but you can do it on the Mac and then sync the setting 
).
Shield for this site is off, so the connection should not be upgraded to https.
Still Brave iOS wants to access the site over https. I think this is a bug. On Mac this works as expected so the “We don’t do HTTP because HTTPS is more secure” doesn’t hold up.
Bug?
BTW, also mentioned here: Disable https ons site-by-site basis