Brave displays a warning about an alien script which happens only when using Brave (regardless of extension settings, or profiles used. Chrome and other browsers do not display the warning.
I have disabled all extension (I only have three installed)
I have global shield turned off.
I have tried this with other brave profiles on the same PC (they too show the same warning)
Unfortunately, I do not have any other PCs at home on which to test other installations of Brave.
I have not attempted to reset my browser in any way (am really trying to avoid that).
Running Windows 7 Home, x64
My apologies if this is a known issue, or something unrelated to Brave. I did a cursory search on the warning and came up empty.
It was an existing one on my daily stable Brave. However after just installing Brave Beta (for the first time), it came up fresh - with what I assume is a new profile. I’ll create a new one on my regular brave now and will report back in a sec…
ETA: Regrettably, even with a brand new profile (even showed the intro tutorial) the warning is still there. arg.
Ha… I guess I shouldn’t complain then. I’ve been having other issues with Brave - specifically, if it’s been open all day, it gets very lethargic - sluggish. Typing something in Gmail after it’s been open for more than a few hour would result in such a horrible delay, I’d have to close it down and re-open. Particularly bad was Google Voice in a tab after just a few back-and-forth texts. Anyway, that combined with the alien script warning, got me a little paranoid. But the slowdown doesn’t happen in other browsers.
@erkme73 you have the right to ask and complain but i am not a team member iam just a user like you who try to help when i could
so wait till the team back on monday and depend on the their position on the queue you will get your answer
so let me ask one of the team to help you @Mattches could you help us here
Thanks so much… I’m not in any hurry, so if this eventually gets addressed more formally, I’m ok even if it takes some time. I appreciate your replies, too.
Thank you @mattches for the reply. Unfortunately I am very technically challenged when it comes to the use of the console or other tricks. And without some real hand-holding on how to dig deeper, I cannot provide more that what was in my screenshot.
The dslreports speed test simply has the very vaguely-worded:
It does not provide any details beyond the warning. I’d be happy to do whatever you suggest to find more detail, but without guidance, I’m pretty useless…
Got it, no worries.
It is highly likely that you don’t have anything to worry about, and the “alien script” being detected is one of your installed extensions, or one of Braves built-in extensions (like Shields) being detected.
If you want to be sure, run a quick scan w/Windows Defender on your PC and see if anything gets flagged.
That’s what I’m assuming as well - especially since it appears on multiple profiles (even brand new ones without any extensions). I’m curious though, if you go to the site, dslreports.com/speedtest, do you see the warning as well? If it’s a built-in extension over which users don’t have any control, I would think this should be a warning every Brave user would see universally, no?
If you don’t see it, I’m curious if there isn’t a flag I can en/disable that would remove it - if even just temporarily to know what’s causing it.
Windows Defender hasn’t flagged anything on the PC…
@erkme73,
Interestingly – I actually can’t get the speed test to work for me at all. It claims that it can’t connect to any server. Getting CERT_DATE errors in the console.
I’ve reached out to one of our web compatibility experts for more information on this.
Much appreciated, and good to know I don’t have some nefarious actor causing the warning.