I use Brave on my mac and iphone and I also use the Brave desktop browser on a Windows 11 computer.
Brave on my Apple devices currently shows 185 ads viewed this month. Brave for Windows currently shows 7 ads viewed this month.
I also see that the Brave Rewards in the Windows desktop app indicates that Search ads are turned off which should not be the case.
My mac desktop browser indicates that all four categories of ads are enabled and green (New tab page ads, Notification ads, Search ads and Brave News ads).
My payout account is logged in and my Uphold wallet is connected on both computers.
Within Sync settings, I sync everything between Brave instances and have only a single Brave login.
So could someone please help me understand what isn’t synced or something causing this drastic difference? I am out of ideas. Thanks.
Brave - Apple mac - Version 1.76.81 Chromium: 134.0.6998.166 (Official Build) (arm64)
Brave - Windows 11 - Version 1.76.81 Chromium: 134.0.6998.166 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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@LudicrousSpeedGo, just wanted to clarify a few things:
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No BAT Earnings on iOS:
You can’t earn BAT on iOS. That’s due to Apple’s policies, and it has been that way for several years. You might have noticed there’s no option to connect to Uphold or anything similar on the iOS version. Here’s an article from 2020 that explains it: https://brave.com/blog/rewards-ios/.
Basically, anything you view on your iPhone supports Brave and creators, but you won’t earn BAT from it.
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Rewards Don’t Sync Across Devices:
If you check your sync settings, you’ll see that Rewards isn’t listed. Each profile or device has its own separate Rewards data. This is actually a good thing. If Rewards did sync, we would hit view limits much faster and probably earn less overall. While payments do arrive in one lump sum after being consolidated, that’s separate from the ad counts shown on each individual profile.
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Search Ads Are Off by Default:
These have been disabled by default for some time because they don’t currently pay anything. You can turn them on in the settings if you want. If you hover over the info icon, it gives a clear explanation:
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Not All Ads Are Worth BAT:
Since it seems like you weren’t aware of some of this, I also want to share a discussion I put together: Saoiray’s Discussion About Rewards Payout Amounts.
One important point is that Brave only pays us for ads they are paid to show. So if you’re seeing a bunch of Brave-branded ads, keep in mind those don’t earn you anything. Even if you’ve seen 200 ads, not all of them will result in BAT.
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Also don’t forget you can enable or disable different types of ads, in reference to Search Ads not being turned on within your Windows version:
You just click on Ads Settings to pull it up
This is different to the summary part where it’s green or red. You’ll see the Ads Settings button is on the bottom, which is what transitions to the other menu to where they can be toggled on/off.
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