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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by kunley on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:12PM (#40456535)
Last time i checked, Brave was insisting on convinving me to use certain cryptocurrency platforms and it was more intrusive with it than typical web ads, which seemed really twisted, as the same Brave claimed to give ad-free experience.

Are they still doing that?

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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by NayamAmarshe on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:07PM (#40457192)
They don't. The cryptocurrency options are all disabled by default and are opt-in.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by somenameforme on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:30PM (#40457510)
It literally never did that. There's some crypto wallet button that you get in the address bar that you can disable with a right click, and that's pretty much the extent of it. All crypto and other related functionality is completely opt-in.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by decide1000 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:49PM (#40458396)
Yes, those ads are still part of Brave.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by arrowsmith on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:55AM (#40465226)
What ads? I'm writing this on Brave and I've never seen any ads. Are we talking about the same browser?
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by niutech on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:30PM (#40458903)
I was talking about Brave Search (https://search.brave.com), not Brave browser. Seaech doesn't promote crypto.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Down by arrowsmith on Friday May 24, 2024 @07:54AM (#40465220)
No, they're not. I've been using Brave almost since its inception and I still have no idea what its cryptocurrency features are. Nor have I ever seen an intrusive ad from Brave, or anywhere else since Brave has an ad blocker built in.

Why does this same conversation happen every time Brave is mentioned on HN? Have any of the people complaining about Brave's crypto-whatever "problem" ever actually used it?

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