Where does it say that it was an accident?

It was unintended. >The ideal situation would be to move these services to be installed when VPN is first USED (post purchase) and not at install time.

it's an issue opened by brave's vp noting that the current behaviour should be corrected

That doesn't mean it was an accident, it could just mean that they realized it's a problem. Especially as this issue was opened after this HN submission got posted.

They realized they were gonna get bad looks for it so they covered that shiz up as if it were a mistake. Marketing damage control.

Issue opened 3 hours ago, thread posted 2 hours ago. I look at Brave with skepticism as one should with a company that flirts with crypto, but in giving them a fair shake, it's important to keep the facts straight. That said, in keeping the facts straight, an issue opened a week ago citing this as a problem was closed in favor of the one opened by the Brave VP.

> That said, in keeping the facts straight, an issue opened a week ago citing this as a problem was closed in favor of the one opened by the Brave VP.

That seems somewhat shady, unless there was a credible explanation?

It’s a publicly viewable GitHub issue that people can still navigate to or comment on, it’s not like it was scrubbed. It’s surely a PR move to show they’re on top of it but not anything to read into in my opinion.

'Show they're on top of it' by closing their own employee's report from a week ago without explanation?

If anything, by leaving it open that would have advertised how attentive their employees are.

Lol brave is cancer. Been a long list of profiteering and generally dubious actions.

VPN probably just gonna get used to obfuscate their yeeting of your private data to their servers.

Folks that like brave seem to have short memories or are incredibly forgiving.

> Been a long list of profiteering and generally dubious actions.

For the unaware, what are they?

Most voiced complaints are (as neutral as possible):

- past CEO personal belief on LGTB rights

- If opted in, blocking ads while showing their own ads as system notification (ads are not being replaced in page)

- hijacking typed-in domains in the address bar by adding their affiliate code on select domains related to crypto (reverted after backslash)

- Tips (using their crypto coin BAT) to Content Creators not using Brave being held indefinitely until withdrawn by Creator (behavior changed after backslash)

and now:

- VPN services being installed automatically if browser has admin rights on Windows.

First is irrelevant to whether the product is good, I don't care about purity tests.

The rest of the list, minus the end, is them trying to make money without selling data. That actually makes me more confident about their belief in their stated values. Last one is an "accidental" oversight, probably to boost install numbers. They decided to change it without backlash first. Again, good move.

By that standard JS should also be scuttled.

The creator of json thinks so iirc,

https://youtu.be/lc5Np9OqDHU?si=YFatp7mrP7vvaZpN

From your keyboard to God's inbox.

I uninstalled it after the crypto affiliate thing even though I don’t buy/sell crypto

Crypto trash

Started with inserting their referral links into clicks way back in the early years.

https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect stuff like this.

sure Brave is a saint, pitchforks only allowed for Google

Nothing is an accident with Brave. You don't go "all in" on crypto unless you're a grifter.

Nice try Brave.