• ZeroCool@feddit.ch
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    Update: Brave plans to address the issue in a future release. The VPN service will only be installed after a user purchases the VPN.

    “Oh gee whiz did we do that?! Woopsie doodle! We’ll fix it someday!”

    Furthermore, no data is sent to Brave from the VPN services. End

    This might be true but the bigger problem is I have exactly zero reason to believe anything Brave says about the things they’re installing on people’s machines without consent. If you’re still using Brave at this point you’re a fool.

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      1 year ago

      They’ll either evil or incompetent. Neither of which I want on my computer

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        1 year ago

        when did people start hating on Brave? last I heard it was the best browser for privacy.

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          They’re Chromium based, which erodes any possible claim they could make to privacy.

          Use Firefox instead. You can lock it down further than you can Brave and they don’t rely on Google.

          • shortly2139@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Doesn’t Mozilla rely on Google for funding? Genuine question, as I though i read this else where on Lemmy

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              1 year ago

              They might get some money from them but certainly not entirely. There’s an entire Mozilla Foundation.

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          I never used Brave, but I believe it was sometime after they started their ad-currency-whatever-thingy (I could of course be wrong).