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?
Whether they route only the browser or traffic or not, that is messing with my traffic routing, and that’s dangerous. If they control the VPN exit node (but especially if they control that AND the browser), they can do almost anything they want with/ to your browser traffic.
Not sure what me serving out applications from my endpoint device has to do with this, but yes, I sometimes do (LAN games, netcat listeners, python servers, etc).
there’s no telling if they are routing anything more than the traffic from the browser
Yeah that’s the problem “there’s no telling”. Messing with network settings is opening a can of worms and highly likely to cause problems one day.
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.
*9 seconds
Fine, for you I’ll do it in 4!
0.980s by using
ydotool key 29:1 20:1 20:0 29:0 -d 0 && ydotool type "about>preferences\n" -d 0 && sleep 0.26 && ydotool type "search engine\t" -d 0 && ydotool key 103:1 103:0 -d 20
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.
That’s a fair point, yes
And brave being built on chromium is somehow markedly better?
I wasn’t defending chromium or brave, not even commenting on them at all. I was just adding a caveat to what the other commenter said about Firefox.
You seem stable
Does anyone want to switch seats!?! looks around nervously
I’m rickety AF
No one told you to ditch it. But can you fanboii a little less aggressively, please?
Have you ever interacted with a Brave user? No, they can’t.
I swear they all have some sort of brain slug that makes them cultish and just generally unlikeable
If you look at what a raging tool the CEO is and the implications of the browser’s association with crypto (no matter how optional), I think that Brave just attracts that type of person
Makes sense given that the Brave CEO is a member of an actual cult.
Which one is that?
the mormon church. it’s the reason he donates money to anti-lgbt causes.
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.
It’s still a behavior like “we are the best software in the world, once we get admin permission we can do whatever we want without additional user consent, people appreciate it”.
No. You must ask permission to install useless Windows services, even if they’re disabled.
Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.
Nah I’m gonna pile on. Firefox is better.
You a full of mins information that only benefit google having full internet monopoly. Brave is chrome. Chrome is google.
You’re the one who made it shitty. But much to crap on the bed then get up and leave.
lol
None of these companies know the first thing about consent, it’s disgusting
Just because I bought something from you doesn’t mean I consent to you penetrating my inbox
