Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

BuT bRaVE isN't ThaT bAd 🤡

Ok. Chrome sucks. Brave sucks. What’s good. Firefox?

Just use Firefox. Or LibreWolf if you want a pre-hardened Firefox. Remember to install uBlock Origin.

I don't like brave because Brandon Eich (CEO, formerly with Mozilla) doesn't support gay marriage and was pushing anti-vax stuff on twitter. I don't look for this shit to titillate my tits like some folks, but when it hits me in the face I can't ignore it.

When fact checking myself I found even more controversies, but I'm not wasting time reading articles that feed a confirmation bias.

Just a reminder, any time you see a "tech" youtuber with brave installed, they're not going to be an excellent source of information

You have to be very brave to download that browser

I don't understand when and why Brave became such a household name. It seems so many people use it and swear by it, but its reputation is "suspicious" at best.

Just use Firefox. It's been around way, way longer and it doesn't use the Chromium engine. Google doesn't need more of a monopoly on the internet.

Brave to me is like an online advertising racket. They push ad-blocking software by default in their browser, then extort companies into using their own ad network to advertise to their users. Brave Ads are of course opt-in and the main incentive of enabling them is to earn BAT (Basic Attention Token) which is their cryptocurrency. In terms of their intrusiveness, they're like push notifications you get up to six times an hour, and from my experience using the browser, it was all mainly crypto marketplaces and VPN's advertising.

Compared to 2020, when you could earn hundreds of dollars in a year from frequently being served Brave Ads, BAT isn't really worth shit anymore thanks to the crypto crash, so the main financial incentive to use Brave is gone.

If you want privacy, Firefox is that way. Or if you absolutely need to use something based on Chromium, everyone and their fucking mother has forked that browser.

Not surprised. Brave is dodgy af.

Use Vivaldi or Firefox if you care about privacy

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The Brave team are basically a bunch of dodgy wankers at this point.

I don't trust Brave, there's too much money tied up in it for it to be good for users.

• Download a browser with a built-in VPN
• Get browser and VPN services on your computer

Why is this news?

Please Brave: cutout the bullshit defaults game. Everybody's getting smarter and companies are getting stupider

Edit: said this b4, don't fuck with your own competitive advantage where you haven't had a joint and duly qualified computer science lawyer who explains how easy it is to lose trust and commercial viabillity for a sketchy, underhanded product (see LastPass). Also FUCK LastPass, may this Pass be their Last

Why is installing a VPN considered bad? Is it because it is done without user consent? I don't understand if there is any malicious intent.

Opera does this too and nobody bats an eye (anymore).

For some reason people like to clown on Brave specifically.

The ol' bait and switch...classic. Opera used to be good too, then chinese people bought it, then emerged opera vpn. Shaddy af. Same as camscanner

Firefox over everything. use Vivaldi if you insists on rendering blink

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it remains inactive unless the user subscribes.

Nothingburger who cares?

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So what?

Are people upset about this? I honestly don't understand.

Independed browser from Google when?

Sick. Thanks brave.