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

submitted 1 year ago by argo_yamato@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I used to be a Brave user. I loved it. It worked well, it blocked ads without me asking, whatever. Then Google said they're gonna bake ad blocker blocking into the API and, knowing Brave was Chromium based, I went back to Mozilla after like 100 years.

Two observations:

I was kinda deluded
Mozilla got their shit together, Firefox is as awesome again, by comparison, as it was when they unseated Internet Explorer.