Fixing My Brave Browser Ads
Tags: browser, diagnostics, settings
Published: 2021-02-25 14:39:37

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title: Fixing My Brave Browser Ads
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description: I recently realized that I hadn't been seeing any ads from the Brave Browser. Brave is cool. I've been using it for a while and actually like using it in general. This is my story and what I learned throughout this journey.
tags: Browser, Diagnostics, Settings
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I recently realized that I hadn't been seeing any ads from the [Brave Browser](https://brave.com/).

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:

1. [Brave supported ads on Windows 10 not opening](https://community.brave.com/t/brave-supported-ads-on-windows-10-not-opening/84464)
2. [Brave Browser not showing in Windows 10 Notifications, no ads showing](https://community.brave.com/t/brave-browser-not-showing-in-windows-10-notifications-no-ads-showing/107316)

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](https://www.bennish.net/) and saw the link [HTML5 Web Notifications test page](https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html).

## 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.

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/oyp7fu21xyzz3h10mdq6.png)

And, within 20-minutes I was seeing ads again!