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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • Download a browser with a built-in VPN
  • Get browser and VPN services on your computer

Why is this news?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea i don’t get the hate boner for brave. I get it's sketchy and don’t use it myself, but they aren’t sneakily installing some VPN to redirect all your web traffic without you knowing. They tell you about it right up front because it's a service they want to sell.

If you don’t like the browser, don’t use it. There isn’t a need to go on some crusade to smear them with bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a bunch of people upset with the company's CEO or whatever over personal views. The browser itself wasn't that bad after you disabled the ad and crypto stuff, which they heavily pushed on you.

I had switched to it from Chrome last year but ended up not caring for it, so I went to Firefox and Librewolf. People can use whatever the hell they want, idgaf. But for those who will eventually end up complaining about YouTube ads and continue to use Chrome, I have no sympathy for if you can't take the few minutes to download and install a new browser and move your favorites over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This community has some of the worst biased tech readers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Because it's Brave and people like to jump on bandwagons. This is like the 6th time I've seen this article posted in lemmybin also.

And since we have the reddit-minded folk here, no, I do not support Brave and never will and I would much rather they disappear from the internet, but using ragebait to complain about the browser installing the necessary files to have one of their advertised services working, like pretty much every other software does, is not the way to move forward.