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.

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    1 year ago

    Brave, owned by Brendan Eich who has donated to homophobic charities and whose browser promotes a load of crypto bro shit on the new tab page.

    Unironically, using straight up Google Chrome is better IMO

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      1 year ago

      Bro missed his crypto scam chance by 6-12mo and just won’t give up.

      I tell people to use open source Chromium, Firefox or … Hell, use Vivaldi or something. Brave is a bad time waiting to happen at this point.

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      1 year ago

      He donated when he was a CEO of Mozilla, Brave did not even existed. Double standards are so much better and so much usefull.