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submitted 8 months ago by GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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.

Brave Firewall + VPN is an extra service that Brave users may subscribe to for a monthly fee. Launched in mid-2022, it is a cooperation between Brave Software, maker of Brave Browser, and Guardian, the company that operates the VPN and the firewall solution. The firewall and VPN solution is available for $9.99 per month.

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 88 points 8 months ago

Brave, owned by Brendan Eich who has donated to homophobic charities and whose browser promotes a load of crypto bro shit on the new tab page.

Unironically, using straight up Google Chrome is better IMO

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

Bro missed his crypto scam chance by 6-12mo and just won't give up.

I tell people to use open source Chromium, Firefox or ... Hell, use Vivaldi or something. Brave is a bad time waiting to happen at this point.

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[-] Sivilian@lemmy.zip 72 points 8 months ago

Would you looks at that brave doing something crazy again.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 33 points 8 months ago

Now we just gotta wait for the CEO to go on a marketing campaign for new users, in an attempt to drown out the story.

[-] Sygheil@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago

I've seen this software behaviour back in the day, oh wait its called trojan.

[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 8 months ago

Yet another reason to not use Brave.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago
[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago

If you care about privacy at all why are you installing brave

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 12 points 8 months ago

Why is every fucking post in the privacy communities just a circle jerk about Brave?

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[-] Treczoks@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

And spyware for free, and I would not be surprised if they included an insecure backdoor at no extra cost.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago

As compared to a secure backdoor?

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[-] adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Well I feel better about making the switch to Firefox now, and doing a custom user.js

[-] Moderator@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

What is the consensus here on using Brave search in Firefox?

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

It's giga cringe

[-] 8bitretro@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

I've posted a similar question to asklemmy but more over the focus on preference than privacy. In short the search engine Kagi is really good, Brave search was what I had used for a while. I think search engine choice is a case by case kinda thing, each person uses what they like. There are some other engines I forgot from my post which are more privacy centered.

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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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