Unsolicited Advertisements from Brave Rewards

This honestly does not come as a surprise.<p>It&#x27;s the same story - an unsuspecting update adds [ads|crypto|rewards|suggestions], users complain, and they apologize for having it enabled by default, and point out that to an option to turn it off, 10 clicks under.<p>Rinse and repeat.<p>Just use Firefox, and at this point the Chromium Edge probably takes things more seriously (including privacy) compared to the joke that Brave is.

Isn’t this kind of the point of Brave? I don’t buy into BAT but Brave has always been a tool to popularize BAT. Why are these people using Brave?

Isn&#x27;t the whole point of Brave that you are looking at ads for attention points? Why would you use Brave unless you&#x27;re monetizing your own attention?<p>Me, I prefer to not look at ads at all.

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This is very intrusive, as I found out a few days ago. It adds a tip button to Twitter, reddit and Github. It is useless in 99.99% of use cases because not only do the users of these sites unaware of BAT, but I don&#x27;t tip everything I see.<p>I usually support brave but this was disapointing. I know I am using the browser for free.

Yep. I&#x27;ve pointed this out a ton of times. I always get downvoted.<p>Brave is a scam in this regard. It says it gets rid of ads but places them elsewhere. For example, when you close all of your tabs, an ad is the background for the dashboard view - which ironically shows you how many ads Brave has blocked.<p>BAT never say well with me, and the maintainers of Brave have only demonstrated why it shouldn&#x27;t by being hostile to (well intentioned) critics on the issue tracker.<p>Just a sad project all around, and it&#x27;s further sad to see some OSSers that I like be associated with the project...

What are the best alternatives at this point to Brave?

Really twisting the use of the word advertisement here, it&#x27;s the complete opposite really. Then again I&#x27;m guessing most only read headlines and hear what they want.<p>A small donation button next to GitHub projects or Reddit posts is not advertising.<p>Of course it should have an option to be disabled, without a doubt but for the most part it&#x27;s no more intrusive than using RES on Reddit.