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by Drdrdrq 2834 days ago
That has nothing to do with Brave, it's just another failure of antivirus / antimalware approach. Nothing new.

EDIT: not sure why they prefer blacklisting to whitelisting, anyone know the reasons?

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Because if it is whitelisted then anything new or obscure is blocked. Fine with enterprise IT but not consumers.
Here is my take on it: with blacklisting, each update brings tons of new patches/signatures. It proves to users that the devs of their security suite are hard at work, and it's a neverending race. So all in all, a very good strategy for the AV industry.
of course it has nothing to do with brave