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by avazhi
159 days ago
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Brave also installed a VPN an a VPN service without permission on my Windows machine, and then didn’t disable or remove 3 separate scheduled tasks in Windows Scheduler once I’d uninstalled it. The VPN issue was open for like 8+ months on GitHub too - and at first they denied doing it at all. For all I know it still installs it, but I removed this malware-type shit when this all happened so I couldn’t tell you. I’ll never trust them again after that. |
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The VPN they installed was disabled and they could not activate it without user interaction. And the only reason they did this is so when you click "activate VPN" in the browser, it works immediately.
On top of that, other businesses employ(ed) similar tricks. For years and years and years, Dropbox on macOS did a very specific hack to give itself more permissions to ease syncing. Hell, Firefox injected ads for Mr. Robot via a surreptitiously installed invisible extension.
Still a boneheaded move by Brave, just like adding their own affiliate link to crypto links (if none were added) to generate extra revenue for the company at no extra cost to the user. But that is even further in the past.
At any rate, they also fund or develop a bunch of anti-ad tech and research and make it open source / publish it. The defaults of Brave protect your privacy much better than Firefox's defaults. And so far, their BAT concept is the only one that is a legitimate alternative to an ad-funded internet.
Brave is everything Mozilla wishes it had become.