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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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A VPN provider has the same level of insight into your traffic as an ISP does when not using a VPN. If having one installed without your consent isn't a privacy issue I don't know what is...
Is it activated by default though?
I just looked on a VM I spun up for risky shit. It seems to be opt-in only.
Is it a good VPN? No. Is it worth the overreacting that Lemmy seems to do every time someone mentions Brave? No.
But hey, social media.
Apparently we need a anti brave circle jerk
Unclear to me, according to the OP the service is set to manual start. But there is an event trigger attached to the service and the article doesn't mention what that event is.