Gross. Browser, tracker blocking, and VPN should ALWAYS be different entities. Forever and always. Their incentives are misaligned at a fundamental level. My machine is the module that should tie the various components together how I see fit.
What company runs this VPN? One of the awful ones I assume?
They are attempting to gain market share with this. What else can they do, too many corporations only allow Chrome only, most React/Angular devs prefer Chrome and probably aren't going to switch anytime soon. Mobile browsers are stuck with their OS's core browser engine regardless of what you "download".
This seems like a win for user-privacy and also that potential independent revenue stream (freemium 50GB vs premium) they've been chasing since Google search became their only goose.
They should have done this years ago, but I applaud them for doing it now.
I'm not clear on why the naysayers are against this.
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They should have done this years ago, but I applaud them for doing it now.
I'm not clear on why the naysayers are against this.