I decided to try out brave after hearing so many people talk positively about it.That was the absolute worst decision I could've made, specifically after having just finished installing and setting up a fresh Windows 11 install...The first thing that annoyed me about it is when you open the Settings for the first time you are greeted with crypto wallets and stuff that really shouldn't be part of a browser...When I first installed brave there was no WireGuard VPN service bundled with it, that service was silently installed later by the browser's background update service. I was shocked to see a random icon popping up in my system tray after a reboot, and it was called "Brave VPN". There was now a new entry in the Startup Apps inside the Task Manager called "Brave_vpn_wireguard_service", and there are also 2 new entries in the Windows Services.If you go to brave_browser's github page and check issue #33726, they are blaming the users for having granted admin rights to the installer when prompted by UAC which I never got the prompt in the first place because I have UAC disabled, they are also blaming the users for having enabled the VPN service and claiming that the service would not be running on startup if it wasn't enabled by the user which I didn't because it wasn't there in the first placed when I installed the browser...And when I uninstalled the browser it still left behind all the bloatware that it silently installed on my system, the entry in the Startup Apps in the Task Manager is still there, the "Brave Vpn Wireguard Service" is still there in the Windows Services, it left behind an ungodly amount of registry entries and folders.DO NOT TRY THIS BROWSER BECAUSE OF THE HYPE.If you are concerned about privacy, do yourself a favor and please do not use this browserTry Mozilla Firefox instead.
