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If you have the Brave Browser installed on your Windows devices, then you may also have Brave VPN services installed on the machine. Brave installs these services without user consent on Windows devices.

More reason to ditch the crypto bro browser.

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    1 year ago

    https://old.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/17b0pxl/brave_appears_to_install_vpn_services_without/k5kwd97/

    https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726

    And crypto are disabled by default.

    No, I wont’ ditch it. It’s the best browser out there, right now, since scummy/corrupt/hypocrite Mozilla (which, remember, is in bed with Google, Amazon and Facebook while criticizing them) decided that Firefox is just a side project for them and they’re deceiving people making them believe that donations fund FF development.

    Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.

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      “In bed with”=takes their money to have their search engine and lets you change it in 30 seconds while being completely open source

      I don’t see the problem.

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        Tbf, changing the default search engine probably has the effect that the vast majority of users will stick with it. So, although it is pretty easy for you and me to change the search engine, it still promotes Google quite a lot and thus undermines the independent character of Firefox as a whole.

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          1 year ago

          Absolutely. I would prefer they didn’t have google as the default, but I’d rather have Firefox with good funding and google as default than firefox with very little funding.