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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

www.androidcentral.com

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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

www.androidcentral.com

AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 to [email protected]English • 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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    Sick. Thanks brave.

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      Installing VPNs without telling the end user isn’t a good thing.

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        And that’s what we call a Trojan horse

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          Yes they did install services.

          https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-services-without-user-consent/

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          O.o did you even click the article? That’s exactly what they did.

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