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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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When you download Brave for Windows, you are also downloading the company's VPN service, for better or worse.
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      that was already mitigated and addressed

      Yeah, after a year. Sorry, but I don’t take lightly to companies that are stealing screenshot of my browser and than act like it’s no big deal.

      without any hint of what they would be.

      Have you not been paying attention over the last few years? Mozilla’s numerous missteps ain’t exactly a secret. Here is a little list:

      • https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml
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