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"Brave discourages using VPNs for the purpose of downloading ad catalogs from other countries. Doing so may increase the chances of being flagged as suspect, an
by jamesdwilson 5y ago
"Brave discourages using VPNs for the purpose of downloading ad catalogs from other countries. Doing so may increase the chances of being flagged as suspect, and result in issues with claiming tokens on the payment date."
As far as I know, this is something that happens automatically without user intervention, and I don't see any settings or buttons to push related to this.
Therefore, if you use a VPN while using Brave, you might be flagged as "suspect."
Is this why even though they partnered with Guardian to provide VPN services for iOS in 2020 [1] they have yet to provide desktop support?
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[1] https://brave.com/brave-and-guardian/ https://brave.com/brave-and-guardian/
- rglullis 5y ago> I don't see any settings or buttons to push related to this. Yes, there is. Just don't turn on the ad rewards. The ad matching is anonymized, so it can't really tell where jamesdwilson is really connecting from. All it can know is that there is one device that connected from one place but wants to claim that is has seen an ad intended for another country. Imagine if you are responsible for the "ad confirmation" service and your job is to ensure that there is no abuse of the ad delivery. Do you think it would be okay for it to issue the ad confirmation to your device? How would you design a system that could avoid fake viewers?
- jamesdwilson 5y agoOkay, so to be clear, you're saying if I want to use a VPN that I cannot and should not expect BAT rewards to work.
- rglullis 5y agoYes. This is also what the page you linked to says.