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Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced?
Use Brave v1.39.111 for some amount of time
2.Notice that Shields are now off when browsing to new sites
Expected result:
Expected Shields to be āonā at new sites
Brave Version( check About Brave):
v1.39.111 on MacOS
Additional Information:
This happened about a week ago, I cleared the entire history (cookies, shields db, etc) and that fixed it. Now, a week later, the problem recurs.
Would you mind trying to create a new test profile (ensure you close the original profile window you had open), browse for a bit using it, and tell me if you get the same behavior?
Sure, will do. The first occurrence took probably 6-9 months to occur, the second occurence happened within about a week of the first occurrence. Iāll create a new profile now.
It happened again - today. I had created a new test profile but hadnāt gotten to moving to it completely (long weekend). Is there any debugging I can do now, in its current state, before I move over to the new profile and essentially start over again? Iād hate to have to do that
To be clear, you are seeing this behavior in the new profile or no? You can test this before moving everything over to see whether or not this will help.
@Mattches Seeing the behavior in the old profile. In the new profile, shields are defaulted to on since Iām starting with a new shields db I assume. Its a chore though to re-allow all the sites that I previously allowed via shields - perhaps thereās a better way?
Ideally Iād like to resolve the issue in your original profile. If itās not happening in the fresh profile then itās highly likely something to do with your specific Brave instance youāve been using.
One thing to try (in your original profile) and test is setting your Shields back to Shields v1 and test to see if you get the same behavior. To do this:
Visit brave://flags
Search for Shields here
Set the flag Enable Shields v1 to Enabled
Relaunch the browser when prompted.
Then test to see if you get the same results when using Shields v1.
go to any site that you never visit before and check if the shield work fine there or not
go to brave://version/ and look for Profile Path this will show you the bath to your profile so go to there there will be a file called Preferences search for this word in the file braveShields the second match would show you some site in front of it (those the site that has custom configurations ) if those are the site you have issue with then go check the file Preferences permission maybe itās permission changed and does not allow brave to save the new settings
this file should have full permission for your user
@justsomeone1 thanks for the suggestion, in both cases (working vs nonworking) profile, the Preferences file has the same permissions, both writable by me.
@289wk Thanks, yes, I did that on the previous, default profile and it fixed the problem for about a week, then the same problem came back again. I was hoping there was a fix that didnāt cause me to re-approve all the sites I use again (or each time this decides to happen after clearing all again).
@Mattches and others, after running the new test profile for a few weeks, the problem has recurred in that new test profile. Any new site I visit has shields off. Iād hate to think I need to start over yet again Suggestions?
