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They should just make it an option to opt into.

• madamelic 4y ago
  Same with letting you disable their built-in extensions. Seems pretty wild to me that a privacy browser is alright with having their own extensions run in browser without any way to disable them or even know they exist. "But the extensions are open-source so that means you can audit them!" Uh yeah... but maybe I just don't want them to run and put "Tip" links on everything. It doesn't matter whether they are secure or not, the user should get to choose what they run in their browser. Brave is great (in my opinion), but the more you look the more you realize how strongly opinionated it is about how people should use the web which is pretty antithetical to what Brave says they are trying to do.
  • radicaldreamer 4y ago
    You can disable them, but the options are hidden all over the place in Settings, some seemingly buried intentionally to make them hard to find -- using UI dark patterns.
    • autoexec 4y ago
      Can you actually disable them, or just disable what they do by finding and toggling some obscure option in the settings? There's a difference between changing how an extension running in the browser works and removing it so that it isn't running at all.
      • radicaldreamer 4y ago
        Not clear whether it's disabled or the UI is simply hidden...