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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
(www.ghacks.net)
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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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.
What's the deal with the timezone?
If I recall correctly, it was meant as a measure against fingerprinting. It’s basically one less thing to uniquely define a user based on the info that the browser gives to a website. I’m not sure if it’s still like that, cause it’s been easily a year since I used LibreWolf.