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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem isn’t the ads, it’s the quantity. And they turn themselves into OS level alerts, that you train yourself to ignore

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can literally choose the quantity that you want to see though. You're choosing to have them pop up, and how often, based on how much you want to earn. You can choose none, or every option between 1 and 10 per hour. I choose 10 because then I get paid the most and I literally just click "close" on the little popup that comes up in the bottom right of the screen, or I just ignore it.

Have you actually used it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not since the last time they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar,

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

So if my information is out of date, whoops. But they are still scumbags, particularly with that CEO