• BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s good users are now aware that Brave includes redundant features that you have to pay extra for to activate. Users browser will update everytime the browser or the VPN software needs an update.

    For example Firefox VPN from Mozilla is separate software. They don’t force millions of users to download it even if they don’t want it.

    This is yet another example why people should not be using Brave and should be skeptical of its intentions.

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        1 year ago

        brave is basically installing a future minefield with system-wide access waiting to be triggered by them, or an exploitable bug by others, on all brave users’ pcs and not just those who sub to their vpn service.

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      1 year ago

      They don’t force millions of users to download it even if they don’t want it.

      Mozilla has been forcing Pocket on Firefox users for years, as well as Mr Robot ads and numerous other things. They don’t exact have the moral high ground here.

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          1 year ago

          Pocket is Mozilla’s bookmark/sync pay-cloud-service. Comes with Firefox by default and can’t be easily removed. From a company that claims to care about privacy I would expect a self-hosted local-first approach for such problems, not a cloud service.

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            1 year ago

            But its not active unless you turn it on right? Just preinstalled so if you decide to use it its already there?

            Cause that does sound like a little bloatware but if thats the only bloat they have and thats its only issue Im not sure Im bothered by it.

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              1 year ago

              that’s exactly what people are complaining in this thread, just about different browser