

All site resources are loaded in that case. First, because it improved protections in Brave that limit first-party subresource tracking, and second, to reduce the number of times Brave users need to turn off the browser's Shields feature to access sites or use certain functionality on sites.ĭropping Brave Shields disables the browser's content blocking. The company notes that it has decided to roll out the change for two reasons. In order to improve privacy and Web compatibility, Brave will by default not apply network level filter list blocking to same-site subresources, starting in version 1.30, or the Beta and Nightly versions at time of this postingīrave continues to block third-party resources just like before, even in standard mode. The blocking logic of the browser changes in Brave 1.30 in the following way: The component includes other protections, such as automatic connection upgrades from HTTP to HTTPS, and fingerprinting protections. Brave includes a content blocker by default that blocks resources similarly to how content blocking extensions such as uBlock Origin operate.īrave Shields, the browser's blocking feature, is set to a standard level of blocking by default.
