Brave installed silently brave_vpn_wireguard_service.exe in the background

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Description of the issue:
I had brave for a year installed, the last update of brave installed silently in the background the “brave_vpn_wireguard_service.exe”, just noticed this. No notification or anything… Scumbag move to silently install things that people might not want.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Have brave browser installed.

Expected result:
Not to silently install bloatware or external applications.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
v1.59.124

Additional Information:
You can’t even see this in the release notes:

I am here to say you lost a user and you should correct your behaviour. Be transparent or lose.

Hopefully this will bring awareness of this bad practice and you correct it in time, i might come back when this has been addressed.

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They admitted mistake. It’s being worked on…