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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC(www.androidcentral.com)

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thefloweracidic@lemmy.world
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I don’t like brave because Brandon Eich (CEO, formerly with Mozilla) doesn’t support gay marriage and was pushing anti-vax stuff on twitter. I don’t look for this shit to titillate my tits like some folks, but when it hits me in the face I can’t ignore it.

When fact checking myself I found even more controversies, but I’m not wasting time reading articles that feed a confirmation bias.

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kautau@lemmy.world
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It’s crazy to me that people ever thought brave was “privacy focused” when it was clear that they were trying to jump on the crypto bandwagon with their own in-network crypto and ad network. It was always just a reskinned chrome with ublock built in and then their crypto and ad network tacked on top

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TWeaK@lemm.ee
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I don’t like Brave because they’ve done dodgy things like this time and time again over the years, and each time Brandon Eich went on a marketing campaign across social media to drum up new users and drown the story out.

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ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee
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He’s also the creator of JavaScript if that irks you any more.

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The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
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it does

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