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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 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 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 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.
  • asudox
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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.

    • Clegko
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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.

      • Kayn
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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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