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Come on, what kind of clickbait is that? So Brave has an opt-in option to see ads [1], and they have some measures to protect against fraud. They are simply being honest about the fact that using a VPN would increase the chance of being marked as suspicious for the purpose of paying you to see ads.

This is HN, and one might hope we can do better than BuzzFeed. In fact, Brave probably would want you to use a VPN, they sell their own VPN service after all [2].

[1]: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026648512-How...

[2]: https://brave.com/firewall-vpn/

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jamesdwilson|4 years ago

Why don't they offer VPN on their desktop product after 2 years?

rglullis|4 years ago

Because 99.99% of the population don't really need a VPN on their browser: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

finite_jest|4 years ago

I don't know, but Brendan Eich (Brave's CEO) [1] is pretty active on Twitter, and I think he used to answer the questions people asked. You could try asking him there. Let us know if you get an answer.

Also, I apologize for being a little bit too harsh in my previous comment.

[1]: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich

Arnt|4 years ago

Do you mean that they don't offer an option to route all your web traffic via their servers?

Do you think that this is something browser vendors should do, ie. that the absence of the feature is something that must be explained?