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		wepple on Oct 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brave appears to install VPN Services without user... At first sniff this felt dodgy to me, but then when I thought about it: a software update pushes arbitrary code to your machine that you willingly execute. You either take the risk and live with it or don’t.

wepple on Oct 18, 2023 [–]

Perhaps this is a case of “something against my expectations occurred” and that’s true; but only because it was extremely obvious and we spotted it.

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