Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent - eviltoast

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.

Brave Firewall + VPN is an extra service that Brave users may subscribe to for a monthly fee. Launched in mid-2022, it is a cooperation between Brave Software, maker of Brave Browser, and Guardian, the company that operates the VPN and the firewall solution. The firewall and VPN solution is available for $9.99 per month.

  • Treczoks@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Both shitty, yes, but an unsecure backdoor is opening the door to every hacker on the planet, not just one group.

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      1 year ago

      I was disagreeing that a backdoor can ever be secure, because by definition it’s a way to bypass security protocols and if one person can bypass them, there’s no guarantee others can’t too.

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        1 year ago

        Of course, no backdoor is secure, but among them, there are the just plain bad and the even worse.