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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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When you download Brave for Windows, you are also downloading the company's VPN service, for better or worse.
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    Opera does this too and nobody bats an eye (anymore).

    For some reason people like to clown on Brave specifically.

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      Probably because nobody cares about Opera doing that since the ones pointing this out are at least privacy aware people that won’t use Opera. It is also a problem when Brave does it because it is a “privacy focused” browser. They sure have the balls to do this.

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        Opera was also 100% up front about it and sold it as a feature. They didn’t sneak it into installers and crap. IMO that’s the issue, the lack of communication.

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          It’s crazy to me that people ever thought brave was “privacy focused” when it was clear that they were trying to jump on the crypto bandwagon with their own in-network crypto and ad network. It was always just a reskinned chrome with ublock built in and then their ad network tacked on top

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          Brave is doing the same: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/29/brave-partners-with-guardian-to-bring-a-paid-vpn-and-firewall-to-its-browser/

          https://brave.com/desktop-vpn

          Did you do any research at all before making your statement?

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        When was the last time you read any posts from privacy communities? Firefox is usually what people suggest and noobs talk about Brave.

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        DDG did WHAT

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            Sounded nasty so I looked out up. Seems it wasn’t intentional.

            https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-duckduckgo-gates-track-idUSL1N3792HE

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