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Google's biggest source of revenue is from web ads. They deliberately choose to not have extensions on the mobile version as it would mean that users could inst

Google's biggest source of revenue is from web ads. They deliberately choose to not have extensions on the mobile version as it would mean that users could install ad block extensions, causing them to miss out on potential earnings from mobile ads.

ashleyn 5y ago
This led me to install Brave after being irritated at the umpteenth mid-article malvertising redirect. Definitely recommend Brave. They even pay you about 75 cents an ad for fairly unobtrusive, plaintext, notification area ads.
- pmontra 5y ago
  I didn't know that. Do you know how much do they gain from that ad? Is it possible not to see any ad anyway?
  - ashleyn 5y ago
    It's opt-in, you can turn them off entirely if you want.
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  This comes up so often on HN that I feel like no-one is going to be converted in either direction at this point but I suppose just for the sake of completeness: "No, you shouldn't use Brave.": https://web.archive.org/web/20210531085250/https://aspenuwu.me/blog/dont-use-brave/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210531085250/https://aspenuwu....
  - pugio 5y ago
    That was actually quite helpful, thank you. Guess I'm a HN 10,000er today.
  - superasn 5y ago
    Wow seeing this for the very first time. Very eye opening I must say.
  - peanutz454 5y ago
    Okay, I am converted. Now is duckduckgo safe? Or is there an article like this about it too?
    - LeoPanthera 5y ago
      As far as I know DDG is fine. It's harder for a website to be quite so malicious, anyway.