The point I’m making is that it’s not like Brave installed the VPN in secret, hidden away to it’s own devices. The code is there and a service is installed, sure, but it’s dormant until the user activates it.
It kind of is a secret, because there’s no logical reason anybody would expect six system services to be installed for an unused feature. The browser’s adware already promotes this product, and I suppose if they can trick the users into activating it at that point, maybe you could argue the system services could be installed. But it’s really sketchy it installs all six services at once, leaving it to the user to exit the browser and go searching elsewhere to delete the unwanted services.
I don’t care so much of it’s in the installer or just sitting on your hard drive unused (which is an annoyance, to be sure, because I don’t want to download or store a piece of separate software I don’t want to use…) but slipping it into your system services is an entirely different beast.
The point I’m making is that it’s not like Brave installed the VPN in secret, hidden away to it’s own devices. The code is there and a service is installed, sure, but it’s dormant until the user activates it.
It kind of is a secret, because there’s no logical reason anybody would expect six system services to be installed for an unused feature. The browser’s adware already promotes this product, and I suppose if they can trick the users into activating it at that point, maybe you could argue the system services could be installed. But it’s really sketchy it installs all six services at once, leaving it to the user to exit the browser and go searching elsewhere to delete the unwanted services.
I guess they place it in the installer to make it easier to update? Note, I never used Brave in my life, so I don’t really know how it works.
I don’t care so much of it’s in the installer or just sitting on your hard drive unused (which is an annoyance, to be sure, because I don’t want to download or store a piece of separate software I don’t want to use…) but slipping it into your system services is an entirely different beast.
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