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Comment by kylehotchkiss | Hacker News Reader

If you work on brave and are reading this... can you stop showing random Crypto banners over nytimes.com and the like? It's very tacky

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That's part of "Web3" (aka Dapps) and you can turn it off. Under brave://settings/extensions for `Ethereum provider for using Dapps` pick `None`

Hey Brian, turning that off fixed it.

I choose Brave for the privacy, Ad-blockers, degoogling, and pretty good maintenance upkeep. I think a sizable portion of your audience choose it for the same reason. Your crypto work is certainly interesting but I think should be entirely opt-in or an extension.

Thanks for your response here :)

I don’t get any crypto banners when I go to nytimes.com in Brave.

I think that this is what they were referring to: https://i.imgur.com/oaZtmen.png

I'm not sure why it shows up for nytimes.com, though, and not other sites.

Some times perform a bit of reflection, and scan over global objects in the document window. This can sometimes trigger our dApp-detection logic.

The experience should be better in Brave Beta, and in the future we hope to get rid of the problem entirely by removing the current injection-based detection.

This happens on archive.org, nytimes.com and some smaller sites too.

I've turned off all crypto, but this appears on every reload of the site. Can I know if there is a setting to toggle or is this a bug?

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