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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by kunagi7 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:07AM (#28786429)
Not my favorite browser and since I only use it on iOS my response may be a bit biased:

- Sponsored Backgrounds: just random places of the world like tropical beaches, Buddhist temples or mountains.

- Cards? Nothing at all.

- Rewards and news are under the settings menu and seem to be off.

Maybe Apple's App Store conditions prevent Brave to do a lot of its crypto stuff.

On Android, Linux or Windows I'm a happy user of Vivaldi.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by weikju on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:36AM (#28786822)
> - Sponsored Backgrounds: just random places of the world like tropical beaches, Buddhist temples or mountains.

No, these are just random backgrounds. At some point I started seeing backgrounds advertising Crocs and stuff like that, at which point I discovered the Sponsored backgrounds option and turned that off, leaving me back with random pics of scenery

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by kunagi7 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:49PM (#28790565)
I installed Brave 1 year ago and I mostly use the defaults (iOS).

So... I looked up its configuration and looks like Sponsored Backgrounds are activated... But, they don't work at all. I deactivated them in case they suddenly start working.

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