This time I made a note of the latest version number and compared it to the version number in my installation. Perhaps there had been a new release to fix this glitch I was suffering from? Getting frustrated now, I checked again that Brave was up to date. This sounded like me - so I left it a few more days. Don’t worry – ads will resume when the catalog is updated and additional/different ads are made available You’ve been receiving ads as expected and they seem to have suddenly stopped – you may have been served all relevant ads in the catalog (according to the algorithm). Therefore, you may encounter a situation where (assuming other factors are configured appropriately),

The algorithm that matches users with Ads is designed to find and show relevant Ads, not just “any ad”.

I worked through the obvious suggestions (such as checking that Brave Rewards and Ads were still enabled), before coming across a section that told me the following: I then looked on the Brave Community website, which has a FAQ entitled 'Why am I not seeing Brave Ads?'. It confidently informed me 'Brave is up to date'.

The first thing I did was check that my Brave installation was up to date (click on the hamburger menu icon and then select About Brave).

So by not being shown any ads, I was no longer accruing any BAT (Basic Attention Token). Not seeing ads may sound like a good thing, but Brave rewards its users with cryptocurrency for opting in to view ads. One day I realised I hadn't seen any Brave Ad notifications appear for a while - a week at least. I had been using Brave as my main web browser on desktop since the start of the year. The cause was a little unusual but the fix was simple. Have Brave Ads stopped appearing for you in Brave Browser? This happened to me recently.

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