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Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"
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The security researcher is an employee for Brave, a competitor that makes a browser too, and sells a white-label VPN that you also purchase and enable from the browser.
I would touch neither Edge "VPN",
nor "Brave" VPN.
the problem with edge's (allegedly) is not just it's white-label, though. that would make it a VPN.
Touche; the two things aren't similar under the hood, but the user interface (being controlled directly from the browser) definitely is. And while Microsoft's sales pitch is deceptive, it's clearly a competitor to offerings from companies like Brave, Opera, DuckDuckGo, every Android app that offers a "free VPN" baked into a Chrome shell.