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TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC

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TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

When you download Brave for Windows, you are also downloading the company's VPN service, for better or worse.

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It’s not even free, the service itself is a payed subscription. But it’s there and it could be working and funneling data without the user knowing it if they wanted to.

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