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.

  • Ferk@kbin.social
    111·
    1 year ago

    Systemd “enabled” services are literal symlinks… whenever a target runs, it tries to start also all the service files on its “wants” directory.

    You can literally enable any service for next boot by making a symlink in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ (or whichever other target you want it to run on) as root (and installation scripts are run as root).

    ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/whatever.service  /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/whatever.service
    • hottari@lemmy.ml
      22·
      1 year ago

      This is actually very close (just tested and confirmed it). I somehow stand corrected about requiring manual enablement but this is just using the package manager to do the dirty work for you.

      However the program itself cannot write into those directories without root permissions. You still have to allow your package manager to do this with root permissions as mentioned.

      • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Installing as user does not require root, to be clear. You can use systemd without root by specifying user.

        • hottari@lemmy.ml
          12·
          1 year ago

          Installing a package requires root which will automatically give the package manager permission to write anywhere on the system. To create a systemd service in user that will automatically start at boot requires root, someguy here commented with the how.

          However you can run any installed binary via Desktop files as a user (no root) on login by writing to ~/.config/autostart.

          • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            My comment wasn’t about installing the package. You seemed to think that systemd required root, which it does not. Further, you can have systemd user processes start at boot. I do this exact thing with Duplicacy, no root required.

            • hottari@lemmy.ml
              12·
              1 year ago

              The entire premise is for a package/manager to create a running/permanent service that will be started after boot AND does not require user intervention (for the avoidance of doubt, enabling the systemd service counts as intervention).

              One way to do this is to create the service file and do the symlink to a folder that systemd automatically runs on boot. For both user and system systemd files you require root to make these modifications.

              Another way is to create a Desktop file in the path I shared.

              If you have more ways I’d be happy to hear them.

              • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Again, it’s not true, so you don’t need to keep acting like it’s the case. You do not need root to create systemd entries for a single user. Systemd is pretty much just symlinks all the way down. You can test this yourself, so I don’t know why you’re saying it’s not possible when me and many others in this thread have told you that you were incorrect in the first place.

                • hottari@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I was correct you need root to create systemd-wide systemd service that will run on boot , user systemd files can’t. What they can do, is run after login. Which has more or less the same effect for a single-user setup. And I did admit I was partially wrong.

                  • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    This was never about runlevel 0 or 1 programs. This was always about whether or not a user can use systemd without root. Why would Brave need to start a VPN service at an init runlevel (before most networking services)? It would make more sense to start at login.