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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that google primarily funds Firefox because if chrome becomes a monopoly then google would have to face antitrust laws. Getting broken up would be more expensive to them than keeping Firefox viable with a minority of people using it as their browser.