Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent - gHacks Tech News
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent - gHacks Tech News
Am I surprised? No. We've seen Brave do sketchy shit multiple times, yet people keep using it.
PrivacyGuides keeps recommending it.
that site criteria is just poor. they keep recommending other privacy invasive programs too.
Check this comment: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/549064/-/comment/3028309
Doesn't surprise me, they had the crypto issues, auto whitelisting facebook trackers, now this. People just have really low standards I guess, Brave is a case of the open source piece of software that attempts to use being open-source as their reason for being good when in reality it just means they're transparently as bad as Edge or Chrome, they just don't require the user to understand x86 machine code and know about disassembly to figure out what they're doing.
At least some people read the code which probably wouldn't happen at all if it was closed source (reading machine code is a pretty big barrier) so that's at least better than chrome or edge (although no one is pushing Chrome or Edge as "Awesome best privacy browser unlimited money download below").
And that's why I always find it funny when people mention a project being open source as a reason why it should be trusted, that only works if someone bothers checking the code and for smaller projects people very often don't.