“use the link or cancel the attachment”

The criteria where you would want to “cancel the attachment” here, is when a link would have been inserted in it’s stead.

I’m not upset. I am utterly bewildered at how a (presumably) functional adult in 2024 doesn’t understand basic email or how cloud drives work.

In looking back I realize that you’re one of those people who confuse emphasis with anger. I can’t really help you there. Out of curiosity, are you the type of person that reads a sentence with a period at the end as aggressive in a text message?

You say something like: “I think we should do x”

Person replies as: “Ok that should be fine.”

Do you read the response as aggressive (active or passive)?

The root issue is that you cannot understand how replacing an attachment that is too large with a link to that file that the recipient can then click, is a fairly elegant way to avoid issues for IT.

If that were the case, it would confuse users. It would be flooded with tickets about the weird notification that they got and didn’t read and how they can’t attach files anymore.

“Cancel the link attachment”???

Fucking press backspace! Jesus Christ, did you just get your first computer ever? I’m getting the picture that critical thinking isn’t really your forte.

Nope, I just deal with OneDrive support constantly and I can say definitively that it’s pretty decent at what it does, and if the links you are getting or sending are not working, it is your fault.

If you want to bitch about something substantive, how about bitching about how 365 has like 20 admin panels that are opaque about what they are and what they do, terrible menu layouts in those menus, etc.

That stuff is a very real problem.

Some boomer who can’t figure out how cloud drives work is not a real issue.

If the links don’t work, that is a “you” problem.

No, it only does it when it is too big. And that is very convenient rather than it trying to send your message and then giving you a failure notice. Why are you bitching about features that actively make your life easier?

There is a lot to bitch at M$ about, but this is not one of them.

On premise exchange is fucking trash. Get out of here with that shit.

Yes, it’s fully featured. No bugs that I am aware of.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect&hl=en_US

It’s a really nice Lemmy app. Open source as well iirc.

Fuck me, ads much?

Time to set connect to open all urls in Firefox.

Searxng is a search engine aggregator. It sends your search out to all the engines and aggregates the results. No ads, no bullshit, endlessly customizable.

You can use one of the public instances. You don’t have to run your own.

https://searx.space/

I run my own searxng instance. It’s amazing.

I also spun up my own yacy instance. It was pretty terrible. It could be good, but you would need a pretty beefy machine with a lot of storage and a lot of time for it to index for it to be anything approaching good.

Redragon K556 RGB LED Backlit…

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G4H448Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Mechanical, no ghosting, etc cherry reds, hot swappable.

Thank me later.

Such as?

Thank fuck for Firefox reading mode

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www.ghacks.net Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent - gHacks Tech News Martin Brinkmann 3 - 4 minutes

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.

Brave Software is not the only browser maker that has integrated a VPN solution in its browser. Mozilla, maker of Firefox, entered into a cooperation with Mullvad and launched Mozilla VPN in 2020. Brave Browser’s installation of VPN services on Windows

Brave Browser Windows VPN Service

A post on Privacy Guides suggests that Brave Browser installs its VPN Service without user consent and regardless of whether the VPN is used or has been used in the past.

You can verify this easily by following these steps:

Use Windows-R to open the Run box.
Type services.msc to open the Services manager on Windows.
Scroll down until you come to the Brave section there.
Check for Brave VPN Service and Brave VPN Wireguard Service.

If they exist, Brave has installed the services on your device. If you were never subscribed to Brave Firewall + VPN, the company may have done so without your consent.

The two services have no description, the startup type Manual and Manual Trigger Start.

There is no explanation why these services got installed on the system. Cautious users may set the two Services to disabled:

Right-click on one of the services and select Properties.
Switch the Startup type from Manual to Disabled.
Repeat the process for the second VPN service.

Deleting the Windows services is another option. The main issue here is that there is no guarantee that a browser update won’t install the Services again. You’d need to monitor the services whenever Brave Browser updates to make sure of that.

Some users who replied to the discussion on Privacy Guides said that they did not have these services installed.

Closing Words

Why are the VPN services installed in first place? Brave made no announcement in this regard. Maybe so that users can start using the VPN immediately on Windows and not after a restart.

In any event, you now have the tools at hand to check for the services and either disable or delete them.

Now You: do you use Brave Browser?

Summary

Brave is installing VPN Services without user consent

Article Name

Brave is installing VPN Services without user consent

Description

Brave Software appears to be installing VPN services on Windows devices without user consent during Brave Browser updates.

Author

Martin Brinkmann

Publisher

Ghacks Technology News

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This is an OPINION article. Opinion articles are written by anyone and everyone and do not have to be factual.

No, it was not a comparison, it was an ANALOGY.

“A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.”

The important word here is resemblance. This is an analogy showing a resemblance, not a comparison.

That is an analogy.

The analogy being, do something objectively bad, get called out for it, double down because you don’t like getting called out for it.

No one is equivocating anti-wei people to puppies.