Conflict on Brave Shields vs uMatrix!

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Hi,

I’m experiencing a weird behavior loading some websites. This issue happens more often in these two websites, which I use regularly: https://edition.cnn.com/ and https://www.aljazeera.com/. Other sites seems to be OK!

https://imgur.com/WyGaTs9

I reached the conclusion that the problem is between Brave Shields and uMatrix extension. In the past never had this issue! Have tried these steps:

  1. Reset uMatrix -> Didn’t solved the issue!
  2. Removed/Re-install uMatrix -> Didn’t solved the issue!
  3. Disable uMatrix (Shields ON)-> Solved the issue!
  4. Disable Shields (uMatrix ON)-> Solved the issue!

Have you guys encountered any such problem?

thnx

MS Windows: Windows 10 Pro 1903 (64-bit)
Brave: Version 0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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Update…

This problem seems to be related to: Upgrade connections to HTTPS. It happens on other websites too. Disable this option resolve the issue for the moment. Also tested on Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit), same result.

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What filters are being hit/used in uMatrix?

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uMatrix is on default status, except that I removed host files. This issue is happening, in most cases, on HTTPS pages.

Maybe I’ll try to install the Beta version or an old version of Brave for testing.

Imgur

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Update…

I found that bookmarks is the key of this issue! These bookmarks are imported from Firefox. For some reasons, which I don’t know, these URLs are in HTTP format and not HTTPS. To test that, I created another bunch with new fresh URLs directly in Brave, which are currently saved automatically in HTTPS format. At this stage the “Upgrade connections to HTTPS” is not required. :slight_smile:

My video-test

Just for info, these bookmarks they have been before, but I haven’t noticed any such situation!

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Interesting, I wonder if the http prefix is the issue. I’d just check the https and www bits. Or just manually readd some of the bookmarks

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Managed to “fix” this issue only by updating my all bookmarks. Changing http to https was the noob solution on this. :slight_smile: No other way! Maybe uMatrix itself has its own problems.

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