Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC - eviltoast
  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    I agree with what other people said. And here’s a new twist.

    Any software that messes with the networking stack, can cause really difficult to debug errors. And it may induce errors in other programs. The more complicated your computer’s networking, the more fragile it is.

    So introducing, silently, unasked for, network drivers and VPN hooks into the operating system is harming the compute stability of their user base.

    At the very least, it should be opt-in! There should be a dialogue asking hey we have this new awesome feature, click okay to install it, something like that. Informed consent