Did Apple or Brave ever say “no ads”?
In the case of Brave (and every business), somebody’s got to hand money to someone in order to keep the lights on.
In the case of Brave (and every business), somebody’s got to hand money to someone in order to keep the lights on.
Like Apple and AdBlock, the stance is that they want to sell their own ads in the spaces where they're blocking other people's
The Brave rewards are system OS text notifications that you can OPT IN to.
In no way do they replace banner ads on websites.
They had a bug in it where if you typed a valid URL (eg. binance.us) it'd still give the sponsored link as an autocomplete which it shouldn't have. That bug stood for one day, if memory serves, and the feature was turned off by default.
We do block our own search ads if Brave Shields is set to Aggressive mode, same as with other search engines and UGC social platforms.
What else you got?
Wish I could edit or delete my post. Sorry.
Just don't use Brave search, the separate product. Or you know, add the blocking rules yourself to the ad blocker, that works. Or you know, pay the $3 dollars to support the thing you use.
Most of the people complaining here don't actually care about this. This is all just a proxy war to go against Eich for his beliefs. It happens every Brave thread, pretty transparent and pathetic.
Of course. Just like I war against your beliefs, whatever they may be. I war against all the beliefs.
I didn’t follow up on details on this, so I guess they changed their plans, that still tells me what they think about ads.
Brave also has a rewards program the user can opt-in to get scheduled text notifications on their system.
I could see your point somewhat if their rewards system was opt-out or tied to whether the adblocker was on, but it's not.
re·place /rəˈplās/
verb
1. take the place of. "Ian's smile was replaced by a frown" 2. put (something) back in a previous place or position. "he drained his glass and replaced it on the bar"
Notice the use of place and position. If you say we "replace ads", I think you are misusing the word replace. I hope you won't from here on, because we definitely still get smeared with the lie that we replace ads in-situ in publisher pages.
The blocking system is a stance against privacy invasions, not advertising itself.