No ads after formatted my laptop

[CryptoTomato]

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Description of the issue:
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1. Hello, I recently reinstalled Windows 10 on my laptop and recovered my Brave Browser with recovery phrase. However, I don’t see anymore ads at all after that. I used to see good amounts of ads.
   (I checked my ad setting and it is is enabled)
   Can any body help me?

Version is 1.4.95

Thanks

[Aa-ron]

Hi @CryptoTomato

See this topic:

Can't active Brave's notifications

@Snakiron, This is apparently a known Windows 10 bug and is not actually specific to Brave. The issue seems to occur when the app (Brave, in this case) shortcut is removed from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs – this results in the app not being displayed in the Windows 10 Notification settings. The easiest way to resolve this would be to just try running the Brave installer again. Note that doing this will not overwrite any data you currently have, but I would still recom…

[CryptoTomato]

Thanks. I will try that. I hope it works

[CryptoTomato]

Hi unfortunately, it didn’t work. Brave Browser is in the start program folder, but still there is no ads. I checked notification list on my windows 10 setting, but it wasn’t added.
How can I add the Brave Browser on the notification list?

Thanks.

[Aa-ron]

@CryptoTomato,

I’ve got another thread with a possible solution. Please see:

Brave doesn't show in Windows 10 notification settings

Looks like you’ve already tried a lot. Until someone replies who might actually have a clue, I’m just going to fish in the dark here: Could you try HERE if notifications from your browser can come through at all? First click on “Authorize”, then “Allow” in the appeared Popup and finally “Show”. Do you get a notification? After doing that, Brave could possibly show up in the Windows notification settings as well. When you reinstalled Brave, did you do a “hard” removal, meaning also removing us…

[CryptoTomato]

No luck… I 've tried everything but ad still isn’t showing up and my notification setting doesn’t recognize Brave Browser

Thanks for your help though

[Aa-ron]

Since you’ve just recovered your Wallet. Can you go to your add settings, brave://rewards/, and see if Ads got turned off or if Maximum number of ads displayed is reset.

[CryptoTomato]

Thanks for your response, Aa-ron.
That was the first thing I checked… and I checked it again just now.
It’s enable and I just changed it 3 ads per hour just in case if it makes difference.

[Aa-ron]

In case you have not seen it we have an FAQ discussing possible reasons you’re not seeing ads.

FAQ: Why am I not seeing Brave Ads?

A Note about Brave Ads Before we jump into troubleshooting issues, it seems that there may be a slight misconception about the goals and the way in which the Brave Ads feature is designed. This misconception generally takes the form of: "When I opt in to Brave Ads, my browser will show me ads whenever I use it." This is not entirely true. In reality, this statement should be: "When I opt in to Brave Ads, my browser will try to show me ads which are relevant to me." The difference in wo…