Getting Ads on Brave

[Bhavesh25515]

Description of the issue:

I did a factory reset for my laptop and installed brave after that. I am having issues after that. (Earlier it used to work)

I am getting ads on pages. YouTube videos show ads at the start of the video and websites have re-directs that are not blocked by brave. I explored the community page and found some articles relating to it but that didn’t work out for me.

One thing that I have found is the components were not updated. I visited brave://components/ and did an update check on all the components.

The following of them shows Version 0.0.0.0 and update error:
NTP Super Referral mapping table - Version: 0.0.0.0
Brave Ad Block List Catalog - Version: 0.0.0.0
Brave Ad Block Updater - Version: 0.0.0.0
Brave Local Data Updater - Version: 0.0.0.0
NTP Background Images - Version: 0.0.0.0
Brave Wallet data files - Version: 0.0.0.0
Brave Ad Block Resources Library - Version: 0.0.0.0
Brave HTTPS Everywhere Updater - Version: 0.0.0.0

I think that this is the root cause of the problem. I have re-installed brave multiple times. Is there any other way we can fix it?

My ads tracker always shows 0 ads blocked when I have enabled all the shields.

Windows 11 22H2 (OS build 22621.1555)
Brave browser version: 1.50.121 Chromium: 112.0.5615.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[SmartyAadi]

Does changing ad blocking to aggressive help ?

[Bhavesh25515]

It does not. I have tried copying settings of custom filters as well with no difference. It seems as if the ad blocker is not working at all, no matter the settings. I have also checked that no third party extension or application is affecting this. Also, tried to turn off my antivirus and windows defender with no luck.

[SmartyAadi]

Could you install brave nightly / beta if issue persists ?

[Saoiray]

@Bhavesh25515

I think that this is the root cause of the problem.

Agreed. It means it’s not installing anything it needs. Where are you downloading from? It seems like it’s either not a legit version of Brave or you have something that’s preventing Brave from doing its updates.

[fedup]

I had similar issues with Brave Beta. I would see ads if Brave Ad Blocking was enabled and at aggressive. If I turned on UBlock Origin the ads stopped. I had to nuke Brave Beta from orbit including the Brave Data folder and reinstall it from scratch.

[Bhavesh25515]

I am doing it from the official brave website Download Brave | Brave Browser.

I have no idea what is blocking it from downloading everything. It worked before I did a system reset. I had to do a reset because I messed up some registry entries.