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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 1 year ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

there’s no telling if they are routing anything more than the traffic from the browser

Yeah that's the problem "there's no telling". Messing with network settings is opening a can of worms and highly likely to cause problems one day.