Brave ads are off by default, enabled per user. It gives no legitimacy to "ads on the web". Perhaps you heard some false claim we "replace ads" on pages -- thi

Brave ads are off by default, enabled per user. It gives no legitimacy to "ads on the web". Perhaps you heard some false claim we "replace ads" on pages -- this is usually asserted without skepticism. We've never done this, we talked about doing it again only with both user and publisher opt-in, via private matching and anonymous confirmation so no remote tracking at all. Anyway, if you don't like ads on the Web, use Brave. If you want to try Brave Ads to get tokens to give back to your top sites and channels, rather than free-ride, cool. If you'd rather not try Brave Ads but want to give back, you can do that too (you have to sign up with Uphold, though; regulators do not make this easy but it's doable).