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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (38 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (8 children)

No one told you to ditch it. But can you fanboii a little less aggressively, please?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever interacted with a Brave user? No, they can't.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear they all have some sort of brain slug that makes them cultish and just generally unlikeable

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you look at what a raging tool the CEO is and the implications of the browser's association with crypto (no matter how optional), I think that Brave just attracts that type of person

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense given that the Brave CEO is a member of an actual cult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the mormon church. it’s the reason he donates money to anti-lgbt causes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thought for sure the answer was going to be the Cult of Crypto

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I actually didn't know that when I opened this thread!!!

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