Brave blocking localhost because of http

I software develop with brave, i’m now completely unable to reach localhost with brave and experience no issues with other browsers

it says ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR which I presume has something to do with it being http

without turning off all https rules, how in the world am I to keep using brave browser for developing?

All other browsers work fine

the following article suggests to re-install brave, but I tried this and it doesnt work

I disable the HTTP to HTTPS upgrade, and sometimes that works, when connecting to local network gear.

Otherwise, disabling that switch on Firefox, and connecting to, for example:

https://192.168.0.1

works.

im trying to understand what setting suddenly showed up in the last 48 hours, because nothing on my end changed, I ran no updates to my codebases

Brave Browser component updates occur in the background. Some may affect Brave Browser Shields (and related settings). May interest:

In a Brave Browser New Window go to:

brave://components/

no success, still experiencing