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[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On windows the adverts are a little windows notification that pops up in the bottom right and you can ignore it or click close. I wouldn’t call that a nightmare. What do they look like for you and what platform are you using?

I don’t care about the “utility of the crypto”, it’s just free money to me. I use brave with bing to do what I already do, and I get paid in Microsoft rewards and brave crypto that I can sell. Win-win.

I don’t care about any advertisers, and I damn well aren’t sending any of them any money lol.

[–] kroy@lemmy.world 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

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 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?

[–] kroy@lemmy.world 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So if my information is out of date, whoops.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