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.

Brave Firewall + VPN is an extra service that Brave users may subscribe to for a monthly fee. Launched in mid-2022, it is a cooperation between Brave Software, maker of Brave Browser, and Guardian, the company that operates the VPN and the firewall solution. The firewall and VPN solution is available for $9.99 per month.

    • chris@lemmy.mlEnglish
      62·
      9 months ago

      Yes it is 10 dollars a month, but you can create an account and try it for free to see if it is for you. It also does not use your data nor push advertisements which explains the cost.

      • whale@lemm.ee
        11·
        9 months ago

        Right now, the only thing preventing them from collecting data is their word. And they don’t exactly have a good reputation for keeping their promises… or putting their money in good places.

        The last things I’ve seen with Brave choosing where their money goes has included

        1. Sponsoring a cryptocurrency gaming event that garnered almost no attention whatsoever
        2. Their wallet partner Gemini getting sued by New York for $1.1 billion of fraud

        The clearly have plenty of money, their software is being developed off the backs of giants (they defer to Google and Jitsi for the bulk of their work) and I don’t think throwing more money at them would be wise

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
        English
        26·
        9 months ago

        ddg does that for free

        $10/mo is also crazy overpriced for a search engine, they’re really not resource intensive at all

        • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
          51·
          9 months ago

          ddg relies on Bing so it isn’t really comparable, idk about kagi’s costs but they claim 1.2 cent per search and an average of 700 searches per month (as what they are serving and hence pricing for)

          • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
            English
            14·
            9 months ago

            If you mean has a crawler, ddg does crawl and augments with bing. Kagi doesn’t have any crawler.

                • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  I’m going off of personal experience. I’ve used them all for SEO, and I find Kagi’s results and experience better for my own personal use.

                  • whale@lemm.ee
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    When you say SEO, do you mean that you can reliably get Kagi to operate in a way that works for you or your clients?

                    There could be a potential conflict of interest there, so could you clarify about how you’ve found it to be good? E.g. there’s a lot of sketchy practices in the SEO community, and returning the most accurate search results might be at odds with a company wanting to be at the top of a set of results, for example.

                    I only have a passing interesting in Kagi, BTW.