[skaul]

> Or does it still replace them with ads for scanmy cryptocurrency?

Brave never did that.

Brave blocks third-party ads & trackers by default.

(disclaimer: I lead privacy and adblocking at Brave)

[weedhopper]

lead what? https://archive.is/W0k4j

(disclaimer: people remember how sketchy Brave is)

[someotherperson]

That was just a concept, it never made it to a live build AFAIK.

What they should have done instead is just take hundreds of millions of dollars from Google, like a non-sketchy browser.

[fenwick67]

Don't forget when they took donations on behalf of other websites and kept the money unless the operator went to the "escrow account" to collect it

[bsclifton]

Already shared, but that (what you linked to) was a proposal and no deliverable was ever publicly released. A simple prototype was made and tested by a limited number of employees - instead of showing an ad, it would show a picture of a mustachioed man as a placeholder. That silly picture would be replaced with real code if the idea panned out. It didn't. The idea and the code was canned before I joined Brave and I've been here for almost 10 years (I joined August 2016).

Disclaimer in case it's not obvious: I am a Brave employee

[VladVladikoff]

I definitely tried out brave several years ago and legit got lots of crypto ads. I really don’t know how you are getting upvoted for lying about this.