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Spivak on Nov 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brave launches 1.0

It's not malware if it's done at the users request. And the user is free to display the web pages it downloads in any way they want.

RandomBacon on Nov 13, 2019 [–]

Users willingly installed toolbars too.

mrob on Nov 13, 2019 | [–]

And if it was truly willing, and the toolbar only did what it claimed it would do, then it wasn't malware.

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