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submitted 1 year ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

From article:

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.

More reason to ditch the crypto bro browser.

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 58 points 1 year ago

It's still a behavior like "we are the best software in the world, once we get admin permission we can do whatever we want without additional user consent, people appreciate it".

No. You must ask permission to install useless Windows services, even if they're disabled.

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