hide Brave Rewards icon in address bar

[Brave-Matt]

Description

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:

Users should be able to disable or hide the icon if they're not interested in the program. Very minor/cosmetic but worth considering.

Steps to Reproduce

N/A

Brave version (chrome://version info)

Dev/Beta builds, v0.55.11 and up

Reproducible on current release:

N/A

Website problems only:

N/a

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]

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

[xv]

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

[sobolevn]

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

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

[snertev]

+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]

+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]

@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]

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

[davidtemkin]

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

[anonrig]

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

[eljuno]

+1 from Twitter https://twitter.com/Bakhita_now/status/1072949012205060096?s=09

[SylentBobNJ]

+1 please remove this unneeded icon

[harrypnyce]

+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]

+1

[Qix-]

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]

Stop saying +1

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

[ghost]

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]

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

[174n]

I did it already

[maikelthedev]

So how do we disable it ?On 30 Dec 2018 18:28, Ivan Alexandrov <[email protected]> wrote:I did it already —You are receiving this because you commented.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[gasman0015]

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

[maikelthedev]

It feels to me as if this is the whole reason for the existence of this browser. Anonymity is the freebie, convincing you of using the rewards is the real agenda On 1 Jan 2019 14:07, gasman0015 <[email protected]> wrote:I will not use Brave until this obnoxious problem is fixed. —You are receiving this because you commented.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[martynchamberlin]

@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]

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

[mikhoul]

@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]

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

[HenrySqwidbern]

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.

[nickenchev]

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."

• Warren Buffett

[pvlg]

For this reason, I still use chrome.

[174n]

me too

[bsclifton]

@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

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:

[oliverbenns]

@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]

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.

[Redsandro]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[jcmatoskx]

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

[iefremov]

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

[MaybeAnonymous]

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

[jcmatoskx]

@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]

@MaybeAnonymous there is a choice, please make yours

[MaybeAnonymous]

@MaybeAnonymous there is a choice, please make yours

i mean the brave rewards process still runs

[iefremov]

i mean the brave rewards process still runs

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