Description of the issue:
So, I go to the “Claim monthly rewards” button and find to my horror it saying “You have autocontributed 17.5 BAT this month!” Thinking this was an obvious error I go look in my wallet looking for relief but all I find is the measly 0.5 BAT I got from ads this month. Excuse me what?I have never and would never turn on Auto-Contribute, especially THE MOST EXPENSIVE OPTION??
Why did Brave do this, and how do I get my BAT back? Kinda pissed rn probably gonna turn off Rewards altogether if Brave suddenly one morning just tells me to go f myself and takes all the BAT anyways. How can this issue be reproduced?
Use Brave as normal without any issues
Suddenly lose 18 BAT for no reason due to Auto-Contribute BS
Done
Expected result: Lose all your BAT reward progress
Sorry if I came off aggressive in my original report, was a bit frustrated.
Sure, AFAIK I haven’t created an Uphold account ( at the very least not linked Brave to one ) so I don’t think that has anything to do with it unless Brave did something behind the scene which I doubt
If relevant, I saw on reddit some guy linking to a page that said to be careful when updating Brave, and that it could put it back on again as a sort of default. I do recall updating to a new Brave version through the browser not too long ago. To be fair I don’t think it should ever be the case that it just switches Auto-Contribute on without warning, but it might solve the “mystery” of how it got activated. I’d still like to ask if there is any action I can take to refund the BAT I had accumulated.
I have the EXACT same issue. My auto-contribution was disabled and it got enabled without any warning. Brave is up to date and yes I use it on 1 Windows PC and on 2 MacBook Pros but I have not changed settings on any devices.
Firstly as mentioned in the other post I posted a little bit before the one you’re replying to, At the current point in time I don’t have an Uphold account linked to my Brave Browser. Would you prefer I do that first?
For your second question, yes, I have had it off ever since I installed Brave to until just a couple weeks ago when it gave away all my BAT. As mentioned the only reason I can think of for this is it resetting the settings without telling me when I last updated the Browser.
I also have the same issue as @thomasnyg. Yesterday, 20 BAT auto-contributed from my Brave Browser without my consent, and I also would like a refund. I switched laptops in February, and it was enabled again, and now I basically lost all my BAT that I had starting from august 2020…
