# Hi Brave Team, Why Brave Nightly stopped showing ads all of a sudden?

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190>\
**Category:** Rewards Support\
**Tags:** windows, android\
**Created:** [June 27, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190 "2022-06-27T18:35:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Author:** ![Aman\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Aman\_M](https://community.brave.app/u/Aman_M)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/1 "2022-06-27T18:35:21Z")

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**Briefly describe your issue:**  
Brave Nightly has stopped showing all types of Ads- NTP Ads, Ad Notifications, Brave News Ads across OSes since a few days. I see this in Windows 10, 11 & Android 11.

**What Operating System and Brave version are you using (`Menu --> About Brave`)?**  
Windows 10, latest ; Android 11, v1.42.29

**Is your browser wallet currently verified? (yes/no)**  
Not on Windows, Android 11 Nightly is verified with Gemini

**What date did you verify your wallet?**  
Few months back

**Have you been able to successfully receive payments in the past?**  
Yes

**Are you using a VPN? (yes/no)**  
No

**Are you in a supported region ([see here](https://brave.com/transparency) for list of supported regions)?**  
Yes, India.

**Does your device pass the [SafteyNet](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.freeandroidtools.safetynettest&hl=en_US&gl=US) check (Android only)?**  
Yes

**Have you manually turned off Auto-contribute on all of your devices linked to Uphold??**  
Yes

I have raised a support ticket #139821 and sent my logs there. @Mattches can you take a look. I didn’t mean to raise another request here, just wanted to update @Sreeni.

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**Author:** ![g00z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@g00z](https://community.brave.app/u/g00z)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/2 "2022-06-27T18:46:27Z")

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I’m interested in this issue.

What kind of message do you see on logs?

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**Author:** ![Aman\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Aman\_M](https://community.brave.app/u/Aman_M)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/3 "2022-06-27T18:53:45Z")

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If you haven’t already, you can download Nightly and see it for yourself. And it’s not advisable to post logs publicly unless you are absolutely sure.

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**Author:** ![g00z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@g00z](https://community.brave.app/u/g00z)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/4 "2022-06-27T19:15:11Z")

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Hey,

I didn’t ask you to post log, simply major error messages.

I already tried latest Nightly version and decided to downgrade for now due to this issue. The thing is, different users can have different log outputs, that’s all.

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**Author:** ![miho171](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/miho171/32/138371_2.png) [@miho171](https://community.brave.app/u/miho171)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/5 "2022-06-27T20:03:21Z")

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We’re all in the same boat. From 20th June update Nightly stopped receiving ads, I also filled the form to the support center, they replied to me many times asking different things, hope they fix it soon.

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**Author:** ![CloggyAbroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@CloggyAbroad](https://community.brave.app/u/CloggyAbroad)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/6 "2022-06-27T20:14:52Z")

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I saw exactly the same on a Windows 10 installation. Last ad received on the 21st early in the morning, then nothing after that for a few days. I went to C:\Users[myusername]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware and renamed the Brave-Browser-Nightly folder to Brave-Browser to run the same profile in the normal version of Brave rather than in nightly. After that I instantly started getting ads again and have done since. On renaming it to -Nightly I stopped getting ads. There is without a shadow of a doubt something wrong in the current version of nightly. It’s just a shame that Brave take so long to acknowledge this. When the first reports appeared here nearly a week ago it was simply dismissed with a ‘ads can vary throughout the days’ kind of response.

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**Author:** ![Nextor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/nextor/32/116432_2.png) [@Nextor](https://community.brave.app/u/Nextor)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/7 "2022-06-27T20:35:15Z")

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I also have the same problem on my 3 devices

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**Author:** ![Aman\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Aman\_M](https://community.brave.app/u/Aman_M)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/8 "2022-06-27T20:47:51Z")

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Wow. You guys have really been spot on finding abnormalities. The more scrutiny the better.

And I also think it’s happening from around the same time but I noticed it only recently. @g00z If you want to know, this is the error that I’m seeing it (and is present for all type of Ads)-

 ![Screenshot_2022-06-28-02-09-17-75_82cebf612ef3f9a8762672c971adaed4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/6/f/6f004b688c6b7fffa8c3c5520048b6802d13d5ee.jpeg)

I’m just posting this for informative purposes and expect no one will make any hasty assumptions. I will delete it if pointed by support.

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**Author:** ![g00z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@g00z](https://community.brave.app/u/g00z)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/9 "2022-06-27T21:15:41Z")

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> [@CloggyAbroad](#):
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> I went to C:\Users[myusername]\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware and renamed the Brave-Browser-Nightly folder to Brave-Browser to run the same profile in the normal version

Wow, that was unexpected haha. Thanks for the info.

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**Author:** ![g00z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@g00z](https://community.brave.app/u/g00z)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/10 "2022-06-27T21:19:07Z")

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> [@Aman\_M](#):
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> ![Screenshot_2022-06-28-02-09-17-75_82cebf612ef3f9a8762672c971adaed4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/6/f/6f004b688c6b7fffa8c3c5520048b6802d13d5ee.jpeg)

What’s your `Command Line` on `brave://version`? Any unusual argument?

Also, I found this:

> <https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23708>
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> \## Description 
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> \## Steps to Reproduce
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> 1. Try to view an ad by launching the browser from the command-line with \`--rewards=staging=false\` to use the production environment
> 
> \## Actual result:
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> Ad is not served due to \`--enable-features command-line arg is not supported\` being shown in the console log
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> \## Expected result:
> Ad should be served
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> \## Reproduces how often: 
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> Easily reproduced
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> \## Brave version (brave://version info)
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> \## Version/Channel Information:
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> \- Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? No
> \- Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? No
> \- Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes
> 
> \## Other Additional Information:
> 
> \- Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
> \- Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? N/A
> \- Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? N/A
> 
> \## Miscellaneous Information:

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**Author:** ![Aman\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Aman\_M](https://community.brave.app/u/Aman_M)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/11 "2022-06-27T21:44:41Z")

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This should fix it. Hopefully next Nightly upgrade. I have to say, that was fast. 👍

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**Author:** ![Aman\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Aman\_M](https://community.brave.app/u/Aman_M)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/13 "2022-06-29T05:29:45Z")

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One more fix for this- [https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23747](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23747)

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**Author:** ![289wk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/439d5e/32.png) [@289wk](https://community.brave.app/u/289wk)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/14 "2022-07-19T22:07:03Z")

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Keep alive bump

> [@I'm barely getting ads this last week](https://community.brave.app/t/im-barely-getting-ads-this-last-week/394342/64):
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> Bump in order to keep this particular topic issue, active - and the opportunity to reply, here, to the details provided by @Saoiray and others. – Good info, re: ‘redeem\_unblinded\_token.cc(228)’ log entries: [https://community.brave.app/t/few-popup-ads-and-pmredeem-unblinded-token-cc-228/385370](https://community.brave.app/t/few-popup-ads-and-pmredeem-unblinded-token-cc-228/385370) – Brave Browser Nightly releases, regarding the occurrences of seeing ads- may be worth testing: [https://community.brave.app/t/nightly-version-rewards-issue/406632](https://community.brave.app/t/nightly-version-rewards-issue/406632) – Note: The OP, @Sarys, has a new …

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/hi-brave-team-why-brave-nightly-stopped-showing-ads-all-of-a-sudden/408190/15 "2022-08-18T22:07:34Z")

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