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.
Check out thorium.rocks It is a fork of Chromium with performance and security improvement. Chris Titus recommends it.
Thorium isn’t good at all imo. They don’t really do much to enhance privacy/security, and have constantly delayed updates. It seems to be ran entirely by 1 college kid in his free time.
I like Chris Titus, but I wouldn’t really use him as a source for privacy/security advice.
Someone agrees with me and makes me smile.
Stop using his baby boomer ramblings as a source of authentic information. He is just being a redditor on his Titus Tech Talk channel, giving advice on every topic regardless of his expertise on the subject. He is doing good work with debloat script and general Linux peptalk, but put a full stop there. The stuff about web browsers, antiviruses and a bunch of other stuff is complete drivel.