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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Checkmate, Brave shills.

[–] ours 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like built-in crypto shenanigans weren't enough.

[–] elscallr 4 points 1 year ago

I used to be a Brave user. I loved it. It worked well, it blocked ads without me asking, whatever. Then Google said they're gonna bake ad blocker blocking into the API and, knowing Brave was Chromium based, I went back to Mozilla after like 100 years.

Two observations:

  1. I was kinda deluded

  2. Mozilla got their shit together, Firefox is as awesome again, by comparison, as it was when they unseated Internet Explorer.