I agree that updates are not evil on themself. No point against “automatically check for updates” and “automatic download and install updates” turned on as default setting.
What I miss is a supported way so that on my own risk and responsibility, knowing what I’m doing, I can switch both off.
I run brave in a linux environment where automatic install has no chance at all to success so it can only complain about failures. The system is updated regularly but the pop up is only disturbing meanwhile (exactly the same disturb relieved by brave blockers).
It seems that adding the following lines to /etc/hosts cuts out the updater from the internet:
0.0.0.0 variations.brave.com
0.0.0.0 go-updater.brave.com
0.0.0.0 laptop-updates.brave.com
Nevertheless it still complains about being outdated. Guess the existance of the newer version is stored internally and will halt after the next update.
Anyway I don’t get the need of such a workaround to obtain something so close to each own freedom of choice
Automatic update without notification is a bigger evil than security risks!
To stop updates on Windows systems set security for Program files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Update folder to All/Deny.
There is no way to stop plugins update, but still searching for this…
To stop updates on Windows systems set security for Program files(x86)\BraveSoftware\Update folder to All/Deny.
There is no way to stop plugins update, but still searching for this…
Automatic update without notification is a bigger evil than security risks!
if i read someone say “security” one more time i will flip my sh*t.
if you have at least 2 brain cells to rub together, you dont do online banking or your private naughty films with the same computer/installation that you go to www shady-streaming-website dot com. maybe we should educate people about that instead of forcing “security” onto them. everybody keeps talking about backups yet somehow the same people think i am a mouthbreathing imbecile who couldnt possibly manage 2 hard drives with 2 different installations of an operating system.
I DECIDE WHAT I UPDATE AND WHEN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. you would think that people associated with a browser that touts “The browser that puts you first” would give users the CHOICE.
You want to know what’s funny, it WAS a feature previously before they quietly removed the ability to do so before FORCING wireguardvpn + other shady garbage like AI training models that NONE of us asked for, behind the scenes. Disabling it through services + other means & it still runs in the background upon boot… but yet they expect us to trust them? You can’t even do in the flags & they expect you to go into the registry/gpedit when it should’ve been in there in the first place & WAS a feature? What a joke. Forcing unnecessary features & blocking you from the ability to disable updates. Maybe Microdick’s browser is a better option than this decrepit garbage.