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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whether they route only the browser or traffic or not, that is messing with my traffic routing, and that's dangerous. If they control the VPN exit node (but especially if they control that AND the browser), they can do almost anything they want with/ to your browser traffic.

Not sure what me serving out applications from my endpoint device has to do with this, but yes, I sometimes do (LAN games, netcat listeners, python servers, etc).