Local Devices Blocked (MacOS)


Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. I have been a Brave user for over a year.
  2. A couple of days ago I started to receive errors when I access local devices (error messages in Additional Information below.
  3. I can access both devices from Safari on the same machine.
  4. I have tried restarting my machine. No difference

Expected result:
As it says on the tin!

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Brave is up to date / Version 1.78.102 Chromium: 136.0.7103.113 (Official Build) (arm64)
MacOS: M1 Sequoia 15.5

Additional Information:

NAS:

This site can’t be reached

http://192.168.1.61:5000/ is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

Router:

This site can’t be reached

http://192.168.1.1/ is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

1 Like

@PeteCH

Try:

β€˜https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/edge-on-a-mac-cant-access-local-ip-or-devices/15e7d07e-a552-4dad-8be4-63dbc97db7e2’

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