▲ 228 ▼ Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net) submitted 2 years ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments From article: 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. More reason to ditch the crypto bro browser.
[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) Just use Thorium permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Jaxseven@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) What's the difference from Chromium? Main "selling" point? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 point 2 years ago This thing is blazing fast. And when I say blazing fast, I mean freaking blazing fast. I've never seen a browser this fast my entire life. Lol It's chrome but 10x faster. Give it a shot. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Leafeytea@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago https://thorium.rocks/mercury permalink fedilink source parent [–] MikaTech@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm considering it, but how does thorium handle Google's recent Web manifest updates that break true ad blockers like uBlock origin? I've been pretty happy with the customizability of librefox with the userchrome.css and ublock still works with YouTube. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 years ago* Well, you have two options. The same developer of thorium does have a Firefox one and it's called mercury. Blazing fast, too. Or you can install adblock detection bypass extension on thorium. It is an extension that's made to work with chrome alongside ublock origin to bypass YouTube adblock detection. In fact, I literally just ran into that issue today and the other extension fixed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jaxseven@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) What's the difference from Chromium? Main "selling" point? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 point 2 years ago This thing is blazing fast. And when I say blazing fast, I mean freaking blazing fast. I've never seen a browser this fast my entire life. Lol It's chrome but 10x faster. Give it a shot. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Leafeytea@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago https://thorium.rocks/mercury permalink fedilink source parent
[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 1 point 2 years ago This thing is blazing fast. And when I say blazing fast, I mean freaking blazing fast. I've never seen a browser this fast my entire life. Lol It's chrome but 10x faster. Give it a shot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Leafeytea@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago https://thorium.rocks/mercury permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MikaTech@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm considering it, but how does thorium handle Google's recent Web manifest updates that break true ad blockers like uBlock origin? I've been pretty happy with the customizability of librefox with the userchrome.css and ublock still works with YouTube. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 years ago* Well, you have two options. The same developer of thorium does have a Firefox one and it's called mercury. Blazing fast, too. Or you can install adblock detection bypass extension on thorium. It is an extension that's made to work with chrome alongside ublock origin to bypass YouTube adblock detection. In fact, I literally just ran into that issue today and the other extension fixed it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 years ago* Well, you have two options. The same developer of thorium does have a Firefox one and it's called mercury. Blazing fast, too. Or you can install adblock detection bypass extension on thorium. It is an extension that's made to work with chrome alongside ublock origin to bypass YouTube adblock detection. In fact, I literally just ran into that issue today and the other extension fixed it. permalink fedilink source parent