I can't recommend Brave to my friends

I like the idea of Brave, but in reality it doesn’t live up to what is promised. I have to dig around in the settings quite a bit to get rid of all the ads and wallets and leo and whatnot… and even then, I can’t fully get rid of it!

On my startpage right now there is an ad for “The Brave Technologist Podcast” and I see “Crypto Incentives” in there.

How can I ask my friends to get this to get rid of ads and have increased privacy and oh by the way, you will get OTHER ads instead, mostly related to CRYPTO!

They would laugh me out of the room.

All that stuff needs to be opt-in.

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Hello! Thanks for the feedback.

Brave Wallet can be disabled with these instructions. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/16122407261453-Disabling-Brave-Wallet

The Brave Leo icon can be removed from your toolbar here: brave://settings/appearance

The New Tab Page ads can be disabled under the Customize option in the bottom-right, when you open a new tab. Example below:
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Please note, if you have Brave Rewards enabled you will continue to see ads.

Thank you!

It is easy to disable everything you’ve mentioned. Work your way through the settings and you can enable/disable whatever you like.

You’ll still see references to these things (you can’t remove them entirely) but you’re also not forced to use them either.