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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
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[โ€“] graveyardchickenhunt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A VPN is only as much of a security improvement as the service behind it. If it gets installed in a shady way, how much trust can you put into the service?

[โ€“] femrap@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was my point exactly. A VPN may just as well be used to spy on your traffic rather than secure it. And that's why I'd be upset, personally: because I don't trust brave or the company behind it.

But I think the main thing people are up in arms about is the fact that they didn't ask for it. :)