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Nevertheless it still complains about being outdated.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.
Don’t know what you’re trying to say here - there is no “Deny” option in a folder’s security settings in Win10. When I look at security settings for that Brave update folder “System” has full controls, as do “administrators”, which is me - and you cannot change the settings for the System account, they’re greyed out, and even if you could change them you’d probably hose Brave so badly it wouldn’t work. Would just deleting that update folder work or would Brave refuse to launch (or rebuild the folder) if I deleted it? I just changed the file name of BraveUpdate.exe to BraveUpdate.exe.old, which will disable it, but until Brave comes out with another update I won’t know what will happen, could be months before a new update is out. I also had the two Brave update services set to manual but Brave installed an update last week anyway - and all Brave update tasks in Task Scheduler are set to disabled as well - somehow Brave over-rides all of my attempts to stop updates.
That last update screwed up my PC and it ticks me off - I listen to SiriusXM’s web player all day almost every day of the week, and the latest update to Brave is now preventing my monitor from going to sleep even when the SXM player is paused - I opened a cmd window and typed powercfg /requests into it and got this response:
Brave is still trying to capture the SXM stream even though it’s paused so now I have to close the SXM tab every night so the monitor turns off after 15 mins - that’s a PITA since I also have to do it if I’m going to be out of the house for an hour or more.