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hide Brave Rewards icon in address bar #1475

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Brave-Matt opened this issue Oct 10, 2018 · 98 comments
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hide Brave Rewards icon in address bar #1475

Brave-Matt opened this issue Oct 10, 2018 · 98 comments
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closed/duplicate Issue has already been reported design A design change, especially one which needs input from the design team feature/rewards feature/url-bar misc/buttons priority/P5 Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon. QA/No release-notes/exclude suggestion

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@Brave-Matt
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Brave-Matt commented Oct 10, 2018

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I've had several users ask if there was a way for them to disable or hide the Brave Rewards icon in the URL bar:
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Users should be able to disable or hide the icon if they're not interested in the program. Very minor/cosmetic but worth considering.

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Brave version (chrome://version info)

Dev/Beta builds, v0.55.11 and up

Reproducible on current release:

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Website problems only:

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Additional Information

Two reports with a few users requesting this in each thread, have a couple Reddit posts to add as well then I find them:
https://community.brave.com/t/q-remove-brave-rewards/34515/7
(ignore thread title, request is in comments) https://community.brave.com/t/search-bar-by-address-bar/34388/14

@srirambv
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+1 on disabling BAT logo when user dismisses the first notification and until rewards is enabled.

@srirambv srirambv added suggestion design A design change, especially one which needs input from the design team feature/url-bar misc/buttons labels Oct 10, 2018
@srirambv srirambv added this to the 1.x Backlog milestone Oct 10, 2018
@rebron rebron added the priority/P5 Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon. label Nov 2, 2018
@xv
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xv commented Dec 5, 2018

+1
I didn't uninstall Chrome only to find myself ending up with more crap I don't want.

@sobolevn
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sobolevn commented Dec 6, 2018

There one more thing that bothers me.
This red intention-seeking notification that I can not switch off or accept.

2018-12-06 10 54 43

It would be awesome to switch these two icons off. Especially Rewards.

@snertev
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snertev commented Dec 8, 2018

+1 to disable the whole extension as long as the user doesn't join the program.

It should be a default for each Brave extension that is not used.

@volcbs
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volcbs commented Dec 10, 2018

+1 too
I want to use Brave, but I really can't ignore the wallet icon that I don't want to use it at least right now.

@davidtemkin
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@sobolevn If you click to view the alert, once, the red dot will go away. It disappears as soon as you view the popup, regardless of whether your enable Brave Rewards.

@sobolevn
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@davidtemkin thanks for the suggestion! But, sadly it is not the case for me. That's a bug I guess.

@davidtemkin
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That is indeed a bug! Thank you @sobolevn , we will address.

@anonrig
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anonrig commented Dec 11, 2018

The main reason why I switched from Chrome to Brave is to get rid of shitty things like this triangle.

@eljuno
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eljuno commented Dec 12, 2018

@SylentBobNJ
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+1 please remove this unneeded icon

@harrypnyce
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+1 +1 +1
Yes, please. Pretty, pretty please allow us to hide (or better yet remove) the "Brave Rewards" icon in the Brave Browser. Otherwise, almost zero complaints -- thrilled to have just made the transition from Google Chrome to Brave Browser. Only ~24 hours into the switch, but this is a major adjustment I'd been attempting (and failing) to make the switch for close to a calendar year now. FINALLY thinking I may be successful. I know this is the wrong place to heap praise upon Brave Browser, but i'm absolutely giddy with the initial results.

@174n
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174n commented Dec 28, 2018

+1

@Qix-
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Qix- commented Dec 28, 2018

Stop saying +1, it doesn't get it finished any faster. Use the emoji responses so everyone and their grandmother don't get notifications for it...

@harrypnyce
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Stop saying +1

Bigger, better, faster, more... Git`er done, fellas!~ Can't stop, won't stop.

@ghost
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ghost commented Dec 30, 2018

Why do I have this stupid "Brave Rewards" icon in my browser?

It's like an horrible ad, that stays turned on and show a horrible notification in the address bar, and is tracking all the pages I visit, with no way to completely disable this horrible feature.

I do not want it, and I wish to remove it!

@maikelthedev
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Any news on this? Is it going to be removed or should we remove brave browser altogether?

@174n
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174n commented Dec 30, 2018

I did it already

@maikelthedev
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maikelthedev commented Dec 30, 2018 via email

@gasman0015
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I will not use Brave until this obnoxious problem is fixed.

@maikelthedev
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maikelthedev commented Jan 1, 2019 via email

@martynchamberlin
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@bsclifton Gotcha, thanks. If I had my way, I'd have the ability to remove that badge as well as the bookmark icon on the left of the address bar. And have a way to disable the auto-hiding of the https://www. part of the domain...

@bsclifton
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@martynchamberlin disabling the hiding of https://www is on the way (already fixed in Dev and Nightly channels).

@mikhoul
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mikhoul commented Aug 13, 2019

@martynchamberlin disabling the hiding of https://www is on the way (already fixed in Dev and Nightly channels).

I'm new with Brave, where will be this setting in the release channel ?

@rebron
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rebron commented Aug 13, 2019

@mikhoul Won't be a setting, we'll be showing full url starting next week with 68.x.
#2192

@HenrySqwidbern
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Can I bump this if it's closed?

What about a control to hide the icon, whether rewards/wallet function is enabled or not.

It would be nice to be able to use at school work wherever without explaining to any over-the-shoulder-lurker-berzerkers who might have a policy-paranoid opinion to express.

I wish to use Brave on every computing device that my hands touch, no compromises.

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@nickenchev
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nickenchev commented Aug 13, 2020

In a highly competitive space like web browsers, it makes no sense to me when developers put in "features" like this. People are using your browser because they don't want bullshit ads or any kind of dumb bloat, or extra "crap" that they have to decline, hide, or close. When you include some dumb extension that most people don't want, and you make it impossible or purposely difficult to hide, you kill your brand. I'm not sure what product manager or "expert" decided to include this feature, but you should reconsider their expertise and how it aligns with your mission statement.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

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@pvlg
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pvlg commented Aug 13, 2020

For this reason, I still use chrome.

@174n
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174n commented Aug 13, 2020

me too

@bsclifton
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bsclifton commented Aug 14, 2020

@nickenchev @pvlg @Rundik maybe I'm missing something - but you can actually hide the BAT icon. We implemented it with another issue, but basically you can find it under brave://settings
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As long as you don't enable rewards, you can hide the icon. It also shouldn't load up if you check the browser's task manager (Hamburger menu => More tools => Task manager)

Here's how it looks hidden:
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@oliverbenns
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@bsclifton Why do we have to search to disable this? As others have mentioned no-one wants Binance, no-one wants Brave rewards. Why would a user honestly go through leaps and bounds to get a standard browser without ads literally built in that won't go from the address bar? Next you'll be adding an Ask Jeeves toolbar.

@Willardgmoore
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Hide Brave Rewards button should be turned on by default. It pissed me off enough that I would not ever consider brave if it weren't for someone else on my dev team using it. I am not looking to remove the shields up icon. I don't care for bubbles with icons. I want a browser where I can be here to work and not be bothered. This has been a really bad experience for a new user. and I am not excited about figuring out this freaking icon and it's tiny number as well.

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@Redsandro
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In my opinion the Brave Rewards button can be visible by default in order to give the Brave devs a chance to onboard some people, but upon clicking on it there should really be an option to opt-out completely, hiding the Brave Rewards button.

@Robanan
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Robanan commented Jun 13, 2021

So there is no way to disable this right? my only concern is that it's taking cpu power, atm I'm trying to save on cpu power as much as I can.

@amacgillivray
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amacgillivray commented Jul 21, 2021

So there is no way to disable this right? my only concern is that it's taking cpu power, atm I'm trying to save on cpu power as much as I can.

See #1475 (comment)

Anyways, having something like Brave Rewards visible on the URL bar made me second guess whether or not the browser is appropriate for work. Seemed iffy. The method to hide it is still not discoverable enough; showing the option to disable it on the brave://rewards page would really help people discover that menu item.

@j-rodman
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j-rodman commented Sep 25, 2021

Right clicking on the rewards button in the url bar should lead to a means of hiding it directly.

Really it should not be part of the url bar rectangle at all, as it has nothing to do with the url at all.

@174n
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174n commented Sep 25, 2021

The issue isn't about annoying icon, but about an extension that can't be removed

@jcmatoskx
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Took a while to find where to disable, as it's not on brave://settings but on brave://settings/appearance
The weirdest thing is why are these icons in such bright colours, distracting from everything else in the page. If Brave insists on having them, why aren't they less prominent. If they would be in gray I probably wouldn't have even bothered to search how to disable them and would have learned to live with them, maybe even accept their features in the future.
But it's my first time trying the browser and it just looks and feels like I have some preinstalled bloat.
If I'm reading a plain black and white page, I have two extremely saturated colourful playful icons on top, makes the browser look like for kids, or like I have some malware games installed.

Also, even though Brave rewards are disabled, they still very clearly show in the task manager as running
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@iefremov
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@jcmatoskx have you restarted the browser after disabling rewards? The extension shouldn't be loaded after restart - could you please recheck?

@MaybeAnonymous
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I agree. I will not use Brave until I have the choice to disable that. Freedom of software is important

@jcmatoskx
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jcmatoskx commented Jan 25, 2022

@jcmatoskx have you restarted the browser after disabling rewards? The extension shouldn't be loaded after restart - could you please recheck?

Before posting, for confirming, I purposely had restarted the browser several times but the task remained open. Currently It appears to not be running anymore :) and I'm fairly happy with the browser. I can live with the orange lion face there, I just wish it would be grayscale :)

@iefremov
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@MaybeAnonymous there is a choice, please make yours
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@MaybeAnonymous
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@MaybeAnonymous there is a choice, please make yours
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i mean the brave rewards process still runs

@iefremov
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i mean the brave rewards process still runs

it shouldn't run in the modern versions. Could you please recheck @MaybeAnonymous ?

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