Brave-browser: Can't disable crypto wallets

[wooque]

Description

There is no setting anymore to disable crypto wallets

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open chrome://settings/ -> Extensions
2. No setting to disable crypto wallets

Actual result:

There is no setting to disable crypto wallets

Expected result:

There is setting to disable crypto wallets

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 1.5.112 Chromium: 80.0.3987.132 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)
Revision fcea73228632975e052eb90fcf6cd1752d3b42b4-refs/branch-heads/3987@{#974}
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 8.0.426.26
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36
Command Line /usr/lib/brave-bin/brave --enable-features=OverlayScrollbar --disable-features=TabHoverCards --disable-smooth-scrolling --enable-gpu-rasterization --ignore-gpu-blacklist --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --sync-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --enable-features=PasswordImport,SimplifyHttpsIndicator,WebUIDarkMode,OverlayScrollbar --disable-features=AllowPopupsDuringPageUnload,LookalikeUrlNavigationSuggestionsUI,NotificationTriggers,AutofillServerCommunication,AudioServiceOutOfProcess,TabHoverCards,SmsReceiver,VideoPlaybackQuality,WebXrGamepadModule,WebXR --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-webrtc-apm-in-audio-service --disable-sync
Executable Path /usr/lib/brave-bin/brave
Profile Path /home/vuk/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? /
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? /
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? /

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? /
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? /
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? /

Miscellaneous Information:

[eljuno]

+1 from Community https://community.brave.com/t/disable-brave-wallet/116840/4?u=eljuno

[rohitghali]

+1 from me.

[RJVB]

+1

I noticed it popping up in the task manager, with a few percents of CPU usage. Not consistently but enough to send me on a search that made me land here.

The IPFS extension is downloaded on demand, why not do the same with this one (and any other extension that most users will probably never have use for)?

[Rhevin]

+1 from me

[juanmcortez]

+1 from me too ...

[dandai]

+1

[say4n]

+1

[Taomyn]

+1

[calebbarr]

+1

[thylux]

+1

[Deses]

Extension Crypto Wallets is using about 70 MB of RAM and I wish for it to be gone. I have plenty of ram but I just don't want this crap installed.

I switched from Chrome to avoid this kind of BS, and this is pretty disappointing.

Also, wtf is this?

If it's crypto related I just want it gone.

[RJVB]

On Friday May 29 2020 19:10:13 Carlos R wrote:

Also, wtf is this?

I've been wondering about those too. They bring back not-fond old memories of something called "The Bat" in relation to spam, so seeing "Bat Ads Service" isn't very nice.

[Deses]

On Friday May 29 2020 19:10:13 Carlos R wrote: Also, wtf is this?
I've been wondering about those too. They bring back not-fond old memories of something called "The Bat" in relation to spam, so seeing "Bat Ads Service" isn't very nice.

Nothing to do with spam. BAT is their Basic Attention Token, Brave's crypto to pay creators because we block ads.

I can't even enable the thing in my country! Let me get rid of this.

[nightcometh]

+1 from me as well, this a very big negative

part of the reason people switched to brave is to avoid these type of background resources that are always on without the user's permission,
sucking resources and sending data to ???

back to seamonkey until this is resolved

[joshxyzhimself]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027

[Deses]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027

Thanks for that link. I guess I'm better off going back to Chrome.

[micnguyen]

Thanks for that link. I'm also deleting Brave and going back to Chrome. This GH Issue along with that link shows to me unfortunately that the developers are not only sneaking in stuff but blatantly lying about it. Sorry guys, it was a good 3 months run with the browser.

[codybrom]

+1. Don't waste my RAM for features I've disabled.

[bbondy]

Just an FYI that this is now lazy loaded with 1.10.x (which will be released either today or Monday), so it will only load Crypto Wallets if you navigate to brave://wallet.

A further change also makes it so you need to explicitly opt-in and without that it will never start it at all.

Keeping this open since there's still no option to disable it after you explicitly opt-in though. But it will be already off for most users as of 1.10.x.

[Invisible40]

Can I turn off the "Set up Crypto Wallets" banner that appears on some websites?

[marcbousaleh]

Can I turn off the "Set up Crypto Wallets" banner that appears on some websites?

That's exactly what I'm looking for, it is really annoying. Please notify me if you found a way to disable it.

[bbondy]

Yes you can set Web3 provider for using Dapps setting to None in brave://settings/extensions or you can just keep it on Brave Wallet but turn on Load Crypto Wallets on startup

[xlcrr]

Settings - Extensions - First item ( Web3 provider for Dapps) - None

Should be default. Really annoying

[AJolly]

I'd like to fully disable it, it keeps interfering with nifty or metamask.

[bbondy]

@AJolly see 2 messages up, you can set it to MetaMask.

[Rishirandhawa]

Brave wallet is making Metamak unusable... there has to be a feature to fully disable/remove Brave wallet. Surprised that this is not a top priority. I think Brave is the best browser but will sadly have to be deleted

[bbondy]

@Rishirandhawa I think you just want to set this setting to MetaMask:

There's code in Beta now by the way going to Release in 3 weeks that will auto set that to MetaMask for new installs instead of prompting.

[RJVB]

I think Brave is the best browser but will sadly have to be deleted

Have you tried Slimjet? It too has a builtin ad blocker, and it's quite fast.

[Rishirandhawa]

I haven't.. will give it. try. Thanks

[guttermonk]

The Crypto Wallets extension (that can't be disabled in v1.15) is keeping my Ledger hardware wallet from connecting to MetaMask. Ledger and MetaMask work fine in other browsers.

Even after setting "Load Crypto Wallets on startup" to OFF and setting the "Web3 provider for using Dapps" to MetaMask, I still can't connect my Ledger to MetaMask. There's no way to disable the Crypto Wallet extension that no one wants/supports... For that, I'm out.

[Rishirandhawa]

@guttermonk I have exactly the same setup and problem. It renders it completely unusable.

[guttermonk]

Tried uninstalling MetaMask, clearing my cache, rebooting, connecting my Ledger, starting Brave, opened Crypto Wallets, and tried to "Connect Hardware Wallet" ...still getting the eternal spinner of death.

[sarland]

+1