In this case your entire comment is pure FUD and a cheap shot at Brave.
I’ve been using Brave for 2 years, never saw a single ad.
That cannot be true; brave cannot block first party ads.
I’m saying something very simple:
1. Brave is a browser like any other, in fact, built on top of chromium.
2. The ad blocking can be achieved with ad blockers using normal browsers. There’s ways to block cookies too.
3. Brave has presets for 1&2. Additionally, Brave adds on top more opt-in ads using BAT as an incentive.
Hence, use a normal browser with ad blocking, not chromium based, and FLOC is a non issue. Don’t use chrome, don’t use brave, no need to bother with this article about floc or whatever google api.
Do all sites on the internet employ first party ads? No? Then it can be true.
> Do all sites on the internet employ first party ads? No? Then it can be true.
Except we know you go to at least one website with first party ads - HN.
Not true. Brave blocks YouTube ads.
There’s no conceivable way a Brave user sees ads without very explicitly digging through the settings and enabling them.
Which leads me to wonder, have you yourself ever used Brave?
When you open a new tab, does it not show an ad for you as the wallpaper of the new tab? I thought that space would show an ad regardless of rewards are on or off.
The ads that I get that I know are because of rewards is the desktop notifications that it pushes, that you can click on. Only ever clicked on a couple of them at most I think, but still have them enabled because I think the idea of Brave rewards and BAT is interesting.
Also, I no longer remember but, when you install Brave it does ask whether you want to enable Brave rewards or not, didn’t it? In which case I think at least some people might be clicking yes without meaning to/understanding. But in my case it was intentional anyways.
