Fixing My Brave Browser Ads

#browser #diagnostics #settings

I recently realized that I hadn't been seeing any ads from the Brave Browser.

This is my story and what I learned throughout this journey.

First, Brave is cool. I've been using it for a while and actually like using it in general.

First Attempt

The first thing I tried was a reboot. Obviously that failed ... or this would have been a remarkably short article.

When that didn't work, I started some research.

Second Attempt

I started searching with brave ads windows 10 not working and read through two "Brave Community threads:

My research pulled up several settings that needed to be changed on my system.

Basically, I found out that this is a common issue with a variety of solutions. Having rebooted my machine, I skipped the ones that said to reboot or restart the browser.

I did see that the Brave Browser was not showing in the Notification settings under Windows 10. I changed these settings to match what was recommended online. At this point, I event rebooted ... to no avail.

In the midst of all this, I turned Focus Assist on ... and off, before realizing that it could have been causing some issues.

Third Attempt

At this point, since I thought I had all of the settings correct, but wasn't seeing the application in the Notifications section, I saved my settings and reinstalled the Brave Browser.

This failed. It did install ... it didn't change anything in the notifications area.

Then, I saw this ...

Go to any messaging website using brave browser (I did it with this one - brave community) and enable notifications. Once you receive your first message/notification, brave will show up in notification settings on windows and you will start receiving ads.

It’s weird but it works.

I spent a few minutes trying to find a site that would trigger a notification. Failing this, I went back to the article where I saw the note above and found ... Ben Kennish's Web Site and saw the link HTML5 Web Notifications test page.

Got things working

From the page I stumbled on, I was able to Authorize and Show a notification. I will say that it was not an instantaneous process, but it did show a notification.