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Clickbait editorialized title, and their system seems pretty reasonable. If they suspect someone is farming BAT (eg. using a bunch of VMs with different VPN end
by pseudo0 5y ago
Clickbait editorialized title, and their system seems pretty reasonable. If they suspect someone is farming BAT (eg. using a bunch of VMs with different VPN endpoints to look like separate users) they simply won't show those "suspect" users any more ads.
Also, I used Brave for a few months with a VPN enabled and had no issues with ads or redeeming BAT, so it clearly is just one factor they take into consideration when looking for ad fraud.
- jamesdwilson 5y agoApologies if it was clickbaity, I did use literal quotes from their own docs. I am a new user to Brave and their docs is all I have to go on.
- pseudo0 5y agoThe page title was: "Why don't I see any Brave Ads after enabling them?" The Brave ads are entirely optional, requiring user opt-in, and it is hard to criticize them for defaulting to not showing ads if they suspect the user is fake. Their advertisers pay to show their ads to real users, not headless browsers in a data center.