From article:
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.
More reason to ditch the crypto bro browser.
ugh, don’t touch my network stack
Not that I’m defending anybody but how is this touching your “network stack” any more than any other application?
because a VPN is both a new network interface, and it has the ability to change how your traffic routes. Most applications don’t do that.
I see now that it was adding a wireguard interface, but without seeing the configuration being used, there’s no telling if they are routing anything more than the traffic from the browser.
As an aside, are you serving applications from your workstation?
Somehow I trust Opera and Microsoft over Brave as this point.
What a world.
None of these companies know the first thing about consent, it’s disgusting
Just use Thorium
I’m considering it, but how does thorium handle Google’s recent Web manifest updates that break true ad blockers like uBlock origin?
I’ve been pretty happy with the customizability of librefox with the userchrome.css and ublock still works with YouTube.
Well, you have two options. The same developer of thorium does have a Firefox one and it’s called mercury. Blazing fast, too. Or you can install adblock detection bypass extension on thorium. It is an extension that’s made to work with chrome alongside ublock origin to bypass YouTube adblock detection. In fact, I literally just ran into that issue today and the other extension fixed it.
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726
And crypto are disabled by default.
No, I wont’ ditch it. It’s the best browser out there, right now, since scummy/corrupt/hypocrite Mozilla (which, remember, is in bed with Google, Amazon and Facebook while criticizing them) decided that Firefox is just a side project for them and they’re deceiving people making them believe that donations fund FF development.
Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.
“In bed with”=takes their money to have their search engine and lets you change it in 30 seconds while being completely open source
I don’t see the problem.
Tbf, changing the default search engine probably has the effect that the vast majority of users will stick with it. So, although it is pretty easy for you and me to change the search engine, it still promotes Google quite a lot and thus undermines the independent character of Firefox as a whole.
Absolutely. I would prefer they didn’t have google as the default, but I’d rather have Firefox with good funding and google as default than firefox with very little funding.
I’d say so
https://lemm.ee/comment/4924770
solution that wipes the extremely profitable, For-Profit, Mozilla Corporation off your Internet
Mozilla should be removed from the entire internet but hey, it’s a beginning.
No one told you to ditch it. But can you fanboii a little less aggressively, please?
I swear they all have some sort of brain slug that makes them cultish and just generally unlikeable
True open source projects like LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium > Sketchy world of Brave
I applaud LibreWolf’s efforts, but the hard-coded timezone makes it unusable for me. Other than that, it’s a great browser. I used it several months until the timezone confusion got the best of me.
You a full of mins information that only benefit google having full internet monopoly. Brave is chrome. Chrome is google.
