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submitted 1 year ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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.

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[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WastedJobe@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

That's a fair point, yes

[-] pixel@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

And brave being built on chromium is somehow markedly better?

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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