Brave and Binance Partner to Bring Crypto Trading Directly Into the Browser

[o_e_l_e_o]

Yeah, the way I get my ads from Brave is a small pop up on the bottom right, if you click on it the ad opens in a new tab and you get BAT.

That sounds annoying as hell, but I have a particular hatred of pop ups, notifications, dialog boxes, and anything else that opens up on my screen unprompted.

The images I have seen (such as on this page: https://brave.com/binance/) show a Binance ad and widget being displayed on the "New tab" page. Perhaps you need to update to the latest version of Brave before you see it? I have no desire to download it to find out, though.

Can be really curious to see the different ads and results it shows you depending on where it thinks you are and who it thinks you are.

As someone who only browses the internet via either Tor or a VPN, there's nothing (except captchas) more annoying than sites who region lock you based on your IP address.

I simply don't trust anything and take what they say at face value.

Agreed, which is why you should stick to open source software like Firefox.

[buwaytress]

@o_e_l_e_o as someone who lived through the 1990s, building my first sites on Tripod.com and seeing Geocities friends, you build up a natural dislike for any kind of intrusive ads so YES the way Brave shows you a paid ad is annoying AF, but to be fair, you need only switch off ads and they don't bother you. I honestly tried it out to see how much BAT I could get. It's about 0.1 BAT every half hour or so but again depends on my IP at the time I view.

I loved Firefox. I grew up on Netscape so my transition to Mozilla was natural, and then I moved to Firefox because Mozilla couldn't handle the more modern sites coming up plus better extension support but ever since being forced to a slew of google services (freelancer, and clients now basically do everything on google) I've found Chrome to be faster (and better extension functionality). I still have firefox but it's a big bother now to use both.

[malevolent]

Oh don't worry I know Chrome is evil like that -- I have a specific Google account just for that, with a wrong IP and wrong details and even wrong language. Can be really curious to see the different ads and results it shows you depending on where it thinks you are and who it thinks you are.

That alone won't be of much help, especially if you keep using the same account. Even moving on to new accounts would probably not be enough without you changing your behaviour, the way you use the browser, things you search for, etc.

[buwaytress]

Oh don't worry I know Chrome is evil like that -- I have a specific Google account just for that, with a wrong IP and wrong details and even wrong language. Can be really curious to see the different ads and results it shows you depending on where it thinks you are and who it thinks you are.

That alone won't be of much help, especially if you keep using the same account. Even moving on to new accounts would probably not be enough without you changing your behaviour, the way you use the browser, things you search for, etc.

I know I can't beat the system but actually, that is almost how I would describe how I do. My behaviour constantly changes -- clients change and the things they need or want are so different -- I'm always changing even sizes and dimensions, and which page I choose to click a result from.

I'm heartened by the fact Google keeps suggesting things that make me feel it doesn't get me at all. Different accounts with different locations still gives me very different results. Thinks I've been to places I will likely never go in my lifetime thanks to extensions that store and load up certain pages.

You're right in the end, I know. But still fun to play with Google.

[o_e_l_e_o]

Even moving on to new accounts would probably not be enough without you changing your behaviour, the way you use the browser, things you search for, etc.

Even then it makes next to no difference. Google keeps a log of your IP address, your computer hardware, your browser fingerprint, even the resolution of your screen and which fonts you have installed. This is all enough to de-anonymize you and link different browser profiles or accounts together.

If you absolutely must use Chrome, have you looked in to use a version of Chromium which is move privacy respecting? Ungoogled Chromium, for example. (GitHub: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium). It should still be fully compatible with all the extensions you need, while still being faster than Chrome because it has all the unnecessary Google tracking, spyware, and bloatware stripped out.

[malevolent]

Even moving on to new accounts would probably not be enough without you changing your behaviour, the way you use the browser, things you search for, etc.

Even then it makes next to no difference. Google keeps a log of your IP address, your computer hardware, your browser fingerprint, even the resolution of your screen and which fonts you have installed. This is all enough to de-anonymize you and link different browser profiles or accounts together.

These are obvious enough that a lot of people know about them (Panopticlick is about 10 years old) and can be fought with limited success given enough perseverance, but consciously going against deeply ingrained habits is probably the hardest part (if not impossible).