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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Whats pocket? And why is it bad that its on the browser?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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