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

From article:

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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[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 won't give this shitty thread more fuel.

[-] WastedJobe@feddit.de 119 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago
[-] Norgur@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Fine, for you I'll do it in 4!

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

0.980s by using ydotool key 29:1 20:1 20:0 29:0 -d 0 && ydotool type "about>preferences\n" -d 0 && sleep 0.26 && ydotool type "search engine\t" -d 0 && ydotool key 103:1 103:0 -d 20

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