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Ads enabled for unsupported regions

See original GitHub issue

Description

While verifying #2562, found even if device on unsupported region, Ads get enabled.

Steps to Reproduce

Set VPN to a unsupported region
Launch a clean profile of beta
Enable rewards
Open rewards setting, Sorry, Ads are not available in your region message pops up for a second and then ads settings get enabled

Actual result:

Ads enabled for unsupported regions

Expected result:

Unavailable message should persist and ads should not be enabled. Only for supported regions should be enabled

Reproduces how often:

Easy

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	0.63.28 Chromium: 73.0.3683.75 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
Revision	909ee014fcea6828f9a610e6716145bc0b3ebf4a-refs/branch-heads/3683@{#803}
OS	Linux

Reproducible on current release:

Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds? Yes on beta and dev. Not checked on Nightly

Website problems only:

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

Additional Information

cc: @tmancey @jsecretan set priority to P2, please change if required @brave/legacy_qa to verify on other platforms as well

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:11 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

lyquocnamcommented, Jul 18, 2019

i am in Vietnam, please enable ads for Vietnam.

Brave	0.66.99 Chromium: 75.0.3770.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	cd0b15c8b6a4e70c44e27f35c37a4029bad3e3b0-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#1033}
OS	Mac OS X

0reactions

muro886commented, May 13, 2019

I am in Turkey please enable ads for Turkey.

Brave	0.63.55 Chromium: 74.0.3729.131 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	518a41c1fa7ce1c8bb5e22346e82e42b4d76a96f-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#954}
OS	Windows 10 OS Build 17134.706

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