Brave browser installing VPN services on Windows

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Brave browser installing VPN services on Windows

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So they fuck around with PDF files, and now they turn to installing crap Ware on my pc without asking?

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Never trusted brave since the episode with android version!

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And that’s why I have been using Firefox for the past 10 years…

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I saw that too. Went to task manager and disabled it.

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Glad I found other people that share my skepticism with Brave, the whole thing smells icky to me.

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i never trusted Brave, seemed sketchy from the beginning

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I noped out of Brave the nanosecond they started with “Why won’t you let US show you some ads”.

Vivaldi has been rock solid so far. The convenience of a Chromium based browser, without all the tracking and telemetry.

The devs have repeatedly shown they are privacy focused.

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Brave has a long history of sketchy stuff. Adding tracking parameters to URLs for kickback, accepting “donations” without people’s consent so they could keep the kickback, and a long time ago they planned to replace ads by website owners with their own ads that would take up the same space.

DuckDuckGo’s browser will eternally be known as “the browser that once let Microsoft track you!”, but Brave’s indiscretions are numerous enough to not be recalled.

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What do they do with PDF files?

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What was the episode with the Android version?

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Privacy Guides recommends it https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/#brave

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Why do people still use Brave?

For people that want an install and forget experience, Brave is truly amazing. That’s 99% of people, unfortunately.

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Ad blocking, logins and passwords, easy to use, and the settings are fun to play around with

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Hate to break it to you, but Brave is Chromium. Switch to Librewolf

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Librewolf

only reson I use any chrome based browser is for certain extensions like the unseen message ext. for FB I haven’t found a better option for firefox based browsers

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I wouldn’t wager any money you want to keep

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On a Windows Desktop PC, Brave alters all of your PDF-files to be html-files. Everything is fine with the pdf until you have to upload the file somewhere where a pdf is expected and not a html. None of your PDF files will be recognized as PDF anymore. Happened to me with scientific papers. The way to undo this is to uninstall brave and change some registry entries. Took me a few hours and enough nerves to never install this on my work laptop etc again

Also, on mobile you cannot download pdf files, but that was not a reason for me to not have brave installed yet