BearmineApr 30

Companies need to stop secretly putting vpns into browsers.

It’s fine to be a feature, but I feel like more and more browsers are just relaying your traffic with very little asking. Or pretending it’s a “privacy” feature.

Show threadFJ Brodie
@bearmine which ones have done of secretly? Most I've seen announce it loudly as a "privacy" feature, so I'm curious.
Apr 30 at 2:08pmWeb
Show threadBearmineApr 30

@FibroJedi Firefox just had some really weird update that used a ton of dark patterns trying to get me to turn on their VPN.

I just found my iPhone was doing some weirdness that I think was VPN, and as soon as I turned off a few settings sites started loading faster, which is suspicious.

Show threadMichael / マイケル 사자 🦁Apr 30
@bearmine @FibroJedi yeah, Firefox just added something like that which they took from Brave I think? And did not announce it to their users that it was implemented in the latest update. not cool for Mozilla and Firefox to do that, but they have done it before as well.
Show threadFJ BrodieMay 2
Ouch, yeah they really should announce something that big. It's not protecting you, if you don't know where the data of your activity is being sent.
Show threadFJ BrodieMay 2

I'm still trialling 3 different mobile browsers. I should check whether #Waterfox did the same update.

My other two are Vivaldi and Midori, both of whom seem to announce all major changes.