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Suspicous windows-like notifications from brave web browser (allegedly)

Razi Falah

8/7/24, 1:21 AM

I almost always never allow websites to send me notifications, however recently I've been getting a lot of notifications from this specific website which is why i became a little bit suspicious, not only because i do not remember allowing notifications from this website. But also because the notification bar looks like an old and poorly designed windows notification. Here's the image attachment.

As you can see, this doesn't look like a system notification, so my question is; do you think this is a part of some malicious program? And if so is there anyway specific of telling?

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Jags

8/7/24, 1:28 AM

Most likely those are crypto ads from brave browser itself. In my opinion, Firefox is a better alternative.

Razi Falah

8/7/24, 1:35 AM

Ok thank you, but brave has a very powerful ads-blocker which is why I use it.

Jags

8/7/24, 1:41 AM

If it's just matter of ad-blocking, I would highly recommend, Firefox with extension, uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ ; and you can use powerful blocklist like: https://oisd.nl/downloads with uBlock Origin. Thanks.

Jags

8/7/24, 5:34 PM

@razi-falah Did the answer resolve your issue? If yes, please accept the answer; it would help others too. Thanks.

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Ubuntu

Jags

8/7/24, 2:13 AM

Most likely those are crypto ads from Brave browser itself. As per Brave forums and other sites, you can disable these ads.

Disable Brave private ads:

Open Brave browser and go to: brave://settings/rewards

and turn off the toggle for Brave private ads.

As per MakeUseOf: If you want to take this a step further:

Turn off the toggle next to Auto-Contribute and disable any toggle below Tip buttons.

Disable crypto ads from the new tab page:

There’s one more place Brave will show you crypto ads. On the new tab page.

To remove these ads, open a new tab and click Customize. Then, disable Show Sponsored Images.

Disable the Brave rewards button:

Go to brave://settings/appearance

Find the hide Brave rewards button and turn on the toggle next to it.

Additional note: In the comment, you mentioned the primary reason to use Brave is ad-blocking.

In that case, I would recommend to use Firefox with extension, uBlock Origin alongwith powerful blocklist like: oisd blocklist. Also note that oisd is one of many blocklists out there to use with uBlock Origin.

This is how you can add oisd blocklist: uBlock Origin settings > Filter lists > My filters > paste: https://big.oisd.nl/ > Click: Import.

Reference links:

https://www.makeuseof.com/brave-disable-crypto-features/

https://community.brave.com/t/crypto-notifications/379238

https://community.brave.com/t/brave-crypto-notifications/257295

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