Briefly describe your issue:
I normally get an average of 50 -55 ads per work day. Now this week I am barely getting anything. I’m receiving maybe 7-9 ads in a whole 12 hour day that I’m online.
I have completely cleared by temp files, cache, not sure if it would make a difference, but I flushed dns, reset tcpip and winsock cat. I also disabled my antivirus for a few hours.
If I toggle on and off my ads option in Brave is will usually cause one to two ads to pop up within a minute, but then I will go hours again with nothing until I toggle it again.
before this month I never had to toggle the ads button. I just get ads as I should.
What Operating System and Brave version are you using (Menu --> About Brave)?
Windows 10 Home Edition
Updating Brave (50%)
Version 1.38.111 Chromium: 101.0.4951.54 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Is your browser wallet currently verified? (yes/no)
Yes
**What date did you verify your wallet?**Over a year ago
Have you been able to successfully receive payments in the past?
Yes
Are you using a VPN? (yes/no)
I sometimes use a VPN but never with Brave. Only with Firefox and Vivaldi
Are you in a supported region (see here for list of supported regions)?
Yes
Does your device pass the SafteyNet check (Android only)?
Have you manually turned off Auto-contribute on all of your devices linked to Uphold??
Month is almost over and I only got about half the ads I normally get in a month. Something’s definitely up. I spend and average of 11 hours a day on Brave, so not reason I should only get half of what I normally get.
Will see how this next month turns out, and if the same then I’m out. No reason to stick around of the selling point is weak.
5 Days no rewards. I finally decided to see if I remove my Uphold account, and reverify it, if it would trigger. 30 mins later, it triggered. smh. Not cool!. I lost 20-25% of the months worth of BAT.
So 5 days of nothing then within 30 mins of me resetting my bunk I get 2 ads is just a coincidence? If that’s the case as you described, then no reason for me to stick around when Vivaldi is the better browser eh?
Also, fresh devices tend to be more ad-friendly cause they’re unknown terrritory to ‘Multi-Armed Bandit’ mechanism, which first explore to exploit later, meaning it will first serve you all kind of segments and then focus on your growing predilections.
Man you’re free to use whatever you want, I’m just trying to alert people there’re annoying mechanisms taking place and this is no black-magic bug on your device. For those who stick with brave rewards we can only hope they stop this nonsense, it’s ruining the ads experience.
Been with Brave since Beta, and it’s not gotten any better. I’m only here for the BAT. If the BAT stops flowing then there is no point to using a browser that keeps breaking sites, and you need to launch Vivaldi or Firefox to finish what ya trying to do. Like yesterday, I can’t download from Bleepingcomputer.com, but can with other browsers. Happens a lot. Brave shields turned off, all addons disabled, etc. but yet when I try on other browsers with addons enabled it works fine.
All I’m saying is if they are now going to screw me out of my ads which are about 50-55 through my work day down to 7 or nothing then I guess I should just stfu and move eh?
I’ve had absolutely no problems with that. No broken sites and I can download anything from anywhere. So I’d be more curious about what you’ve limited on your system or what browser settings you’ve implemented. Perhaps create a post and service ticket on it?
Also for everyone else, there’s a lot of things that can cause problems with ads. In addition, people forget that campaigns might be limited in your area. You can only see ads a certain amount of times a day/week/month/max…so once you hit the maximum for any of those, you can’t see ads from the campaign again.
It is possible and plausible to hit those caps and then see no ads for a while. We’re not promised an unlimited stream of ads or money. We get them while they are there, that’s it.
If you need more details on how things work or what to watch out for that might interfere with ads, a good place to start is my FAQ at PSA: User FAQ - Support & Answers
Oh I have reported broken sites. As have other people. See the posts often. If it were my system then it wouldn’t be on both computers, and only on that one browser when I use several browsers. Also I keep an eye on the campaigns and I am in the region and I am not getting the ones available. https://sampson.codes/brave/ads/my_region/
