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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 1 year ago by GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bruh a unit file can be written to the system or to the user profile

systemctl --user enable name.service

And i can most certainly write bash, and do write bash scripts, that write unit files to both user and system profiles.

Maybe you dont know what your talkign about. just because most install scripts don't include enabling the unit file for the system, doesn't mean they can't.

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh you just ran the command to enable the 'written' service. Comprehension is a problem in this community.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fuck are you talking about?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User#Basic_setup

Basic setup

All the user units will be placed in ~/.config/systemd/user/. If you want to start units on first login, execute systemctl --user enable unit for any unit you want to be autostarted.

Comprehension is a problem in this community.

Apparently so is RTFM and understanding how things actually work.

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read my argument again.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

nah