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Ads on Brave are opt-in (and not embedded on webpages anyway) and the "crypto nonsense" is a way for them to try to stay afloat without having to accept money from Google and the likes.

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They are opt-out, not opt-in. Big difference.

Opt-in. Someone else linked Brave's blog below. Read it.

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H...

Have you ever actually used Brave? Because then you would have noticed the huge glowing opt-out billboard of a new tab page.

It's my primary browser since a few years. If you are talking about sponsored backgrounds, good luck finding any "major" browser that doesn't have something sponsored on it (opt-out).

That only hides them, this disables them: https://rentry.co/browserconfigs

Let's hear it then because I'm using Brave and don't see the opt-out.

https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/38305898674957-H...

and simply dont use their homepage as your new tab page

Cheers!

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