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[–] lloram239@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brave does not block ads! It does not ‘enhance’ your privacy. It just absorbs some ads, replaces some, and blatantly lets first-party advertisements through the filter. That’s not ad-blocking

For the love of god, just shut the fuck up. You have obviously never even bothered to start Brave even once and just repeat the same year old FUD like a stupid parrot.

None of what you they there is true. Brave by default, freshly started on a new profile, will block ads and not show its own ads.

If you want to look at Brave's own ads, which are send via notifications and do not replacing any existing ads in websites, you have to manually click the Brave Reward icon and click through another few dialogs to enable them.

That "shitcoin" is used to pay you and allows you to funnel that ad money into sites you actually care about. It's also completely optional.

which is enslaved to Google whims.

And Firefox, which is financed to 85% by Google, isn't? And as for Firefox and ads: