Welll yeah - point was that they installed a service without consent. And not just a browser feature, but something crossing a whole another boundary. AFAIK also, while the tunnel itself was not enabled, the service itself was turned on automatically.

Also doesn't do cosmetic filtering - like, it would remove the ad, but not the HTML box that used to contain it.

From what I understand, the limit on the lists is not the only problem with it - my main concerns are a) lists only being able to update together with the extension itself and b) some features apparently being fundamentally disallowed, like the element picker I am dependent on.

Also the recent case when they installed VPN. In general, they give off the impression that they don't respect users' consent a lot. Mozilla has been similarly sneaky, like with the opt-out ad tracking recently - thus I would only consider Librewolf or hardening - but Brave seems to be more extreme in their advertising business.

Ah, then I can sleep calmly I guess. There are some group pictures with me, but none have me tagged specifically so I guess that's not as bad.

Well, everyone had their photos taken for their IDs, and these photos might've easily been stolen or leaked... Wonder if this would be enough for such a system.

I am looking forward to more non-tech communities.

remember kids, not your keys, not your coins

"And the government officials can sell this data to me. Relatively inexpensive too".

If I can't add your passkey to my local KeepassXC database, I am not using your passkey.

I really doubt an average Joe would buy a new computer once the old OS goes end-of-life. Joe would just continue using an EOL system and hope everything is alright.

Exactly. What's annoying are oblivious people, who are the majority in every single generation.