brave-browser: Ads not available in Canada
According to https://www.brave.com/blog/brave-ads-launch/, Ads are available in Canada.
However, I can’t turn them on in my browser:
Brave | 0.63.48 Chromium: 74.0.3729.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision | daaff52abef89988bf2a26091062160b1482b108-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#901}
OS | Linux
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 5 years ago
- Comments: 48 (9 by maintainers)
Thanks for the explanation. Changing the locale to Germany fixed the issue.
Just downloaded Brave 1.0.0., connected wallet, enabled ads, checked that the local is UK, my IP address points to the UK (no VPN). I also tried downloading and installing beta, nightly and dev versions and still get “Ads are not available in your region”. Running Windows 10. Quick note: ads do work on my android 9 phone (op3T).
It was fixed by changing Control Panel-> Region -> Time format and set it to English (United KIngdom)
Hey @drink7up. I don’t think you’re asking this, but just to get it out of the way first, your browser isn’t using any detailed location info — this is all happening at the granularity of a country. Unfortunately, advertisers really want to show ads in certain countries not others. We’d be spinning our wheels trying to change that. So we don’t really have a choice about rolling out ads country by country.
Your browser isn’t sharing region info anywhere. We don’t have records of your IP address, or your locale, or anything like that.
It sounds like you’ve been trying to see ads for different regions by changing where your connections seem to come from. Please don’t do that! Advertisers really care about showing ads in the right country. If Brave shows an ad meant for one country to someone in another country, the advertiser considers that fraud, and we get dinged for it. That makes it harder for us to build and improve this system.
Ultimately, we just can’t guarantee that there are ads available for everyone right now. Switching on Rewards is an opt-in so that Brave may show you ads. But it doesn’t guarantee that you’re going to see any. And if you’re not in a supported region, you’re probably not going to.