jordy
October 8, 2021, 1:50pm
1
Hello Google Chrome Store cookies. Goodbye Brave (& other Chromium) browser. Hello Firefox based browser.
How about Brave starting its own Chromium store? Currently, I’m no longer using Brave (& other Chromium) browser.
It’s in the plans, no ETA yet, though.
opened 11:02PM - 07 Apr 21 UTC
feature/extensions
priority/P5
feature-request
OS/Desktop
## Description
Currently, Brave is relying on the Chrome Web Store. This is wo… rking well and to the best of our knowledge, we have the same policies for loading extensions as Chrome/Chromium (please file an issue if not!).
There are a few reasons we might want to host our own extension store:
1. We may want to spotlight specific extensions (extensions recommended by staff, etc)
2. As Manifest v3 is approaching, we may need to stand up a store out of necessity. Brave has taken a public stance against a full move to Manifest v3 ([click here for source](https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-chromes-anti-ad-blocker-changes-despite-shared-codebase/)). As this shapes up in Chrome/Chromium, we'll need to evaluate what changes will be needed - which may include continuing to host some v2 extensions (per article link, we'd want uBlock Origin and uMatrix).
## Miscellaneous Information:
See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/28 for a previous version of this issue. We did some initial investigation work which is linked there 😄
Regarding the screenshot from your post, adding [*.]consent.google.com to the list of Sites that can never use cookies at brave://settings/cookies will hide that annoying prompt from some places within the Google websites, other places require additional filters…
Related to:
opened 05:12AM - 02 Apr 21 UTC
webcompat
needs-more-info
privacy-pod
OS/Desktop
## Description
Google has been forcing users to accept their cookies through r… edirects to consent.google.com and consent.youtube.com for a while. The workaround is adding "consent.google.com" and "consent.youtube.com" to the list of websites that can never use cookies, but that comes with a broken functionality for YouTube - videos would pause/stop out of the sudden, and comments wouldn't load at all.
Is there something that can be done at browser level to stop their bullying of users? It's one thing to show a cookie banner to users, and a whole different level of bullying users to force them to accept your cookies through redirects.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20608253/113469787-1fb6b580-9459-11eb-9791-864415e6063b.mp4
## Steps to Reproduce
1. Visit youtube.com and one of Google's websites (google.com/maps), for example.
2. You'll be redirected to consent.youtube.com and consent.google.com
3. You have to either accept their cookies or add both consent.youtube.com and consent.google.com to the list of websites that can never use cookies.
## Actual result:
## Expected result:
## Reproduces how often:
Always, unless you have accepted their cookies.
## Brave version (brave://version info)
Brave 1.22.70 Chromium: 89.0.4389.105 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 14f44e21a9d539cd49c72468a29bfca4fa43f710-refs/branch-heads/4389_90@{#7}
OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
JavaScript V8 8.9.255.20
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.105 Safari/537.36
Command Line "C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe" --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=LegacyTLSEnforced,AutoupgradeMixedContent,WinrtGeolocationImplementation,SafetyTip,WebUIDarkMode,PrefetchPrivacyChanges,PasswordImport,ReducedReferrerGranularity --disable-features=AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,TabHoverCards,AutofillServerCommunication,TextFragmentAnchor,WebOTP,NotificationTriggers,DirectSockets,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,SubresourceWebBundles,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,LangClientHintHeader,PrivacySettingsRedesign,IdleDetection,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtectionMessageInInterstitials --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default
Variations 7146a73c-3d47f4f4
## Version/Channel Information:
- Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
- Can you reproduce this issue with the beta 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:
jordy
October 10, 2021, 11:21am
3
I don’t know about additional filters.consent.google.com to ‘sites that can never use cookies’ in brave settings, and I can visit the chrome store without cookie message.
Yeah, I wasn’t clear enough in the “additional filters” part. The trick with blocking cookies works all right for the consent redirect, but there are other cookie consent windows that remain unblocked, you’ll need additional filters for them, but that’s not an issue for you for the moment so won’t drag it further. Glad the issue is resolved and you’re back to using Brave
jordy
October 10, 2021, 12:53pm
5
You never know what’s gonna happen in the future.
Would be nice to see
If Brave does create an extension store, I hope it ia fully open source and allows others to self host their own extension store just like how othere can self host their own F-Droid repo.
