You can access this site by clicking the Brave icon in the top right corner and temporarily disabling āBlock Phishing / Malwareā. This is not recommended!"
If I canāt go to Twitch, then I canāt stream or watch streamersā¦Iāve seen other posters talking about regular sites being blocked. Can this be fixed?
I have been getting this all day. For sites that should not be a problem - Wall Street Journal, ABC News and multiple local TV stations. No rhyme or reason - I have gone to these sites everyday since I started using Brave months ago. Something strange has happened.
Well, I just followed your instructions, BraveNew. And under this supposed new browse, the problem did not go away.
However, unlike the OP, I did not try and visit twitch.tv. I tried visiting The Daily Wire and got this message.
I also tried to visit the aforementioned link, https://community.brave.com/c/site-blocking, to bring it to Braveās attention. However, I was directed to this site instead, as apparently that site-blocking link either does not exist, or is private.
Considering this is happening while Iām trying to access the Daily Wire, I find that HIGHLY suspicious. I STRONGLY suspect there are people working on Brave that just donāt want its users accessing that conservative website, because reasons?
You guys need to investigate this right away and come clean about why youāre blocking the Daily Wire, because Iām highly skeptical of the reason thatās being provided. And, upon conclusion of your investigation, you should be able to explain in detail what sorts of malware distribution or login credential stealing is taking place. I suspect youāve done zero legwork to investigate yourselves, since in the first paragraph it is mentioned āBrave uses crowdsourced blacklists from Spam404 and Disconnect.me to block dangerous domains.ā In other words, you have no idea whether or not The Daily Wire is ACTUALLY doing those things, youāre just pre-emptively blocking it because of the whims of two crowdsourced websites.
The potential for abuse and false-reporting with such a method is staggering. Especially since the only way for people to challenge it is denied to them.
Whoever is responsible for that needs to be let go, as soon as possible, on the grounds that they are completely devoid of ethics.
I never suggested that Brave was blocking Twitch for political reasons; I asserted that Brave was blocking The Daily Wire for political reasons. I have no clue why Brave would be blocking Twitch.
The first words mentioned by the link I provided are literally " Oops! That page doesnāt exist or is private." The fact that I got into these forums instead strikes me as more of a āwere you perhaps looking for one of these topics instead?ā redirection. Navigating to the aforementioned URL, I would expect to find myself in a forum dedicated solely to the topic of reporting sites that have been inappropriately blocked. Though I have the ability to discuss this topic in this particular thread, as it is a āsupport and troubleshootingā threat as opposed to a āsite blockingā thread, the impression is that Iām posting in the wrong forum, but this is the only forum thatās even remotely similar enough to discuss that at length.
That we are discussing this is evidence that it is more of an issue than you give it credit.
Consider: I woke up this afternoon and went to browse a link to The Daily Wire, an action that Iāve been doing weekly for months with no problems. Suddenly, today itās a problem. The website URL Iām directed to to speak to someone if I believe itās an error āDoes not exist or is private.ā So far, things are looking VERY suspicious. But, as luck would have it, there are some suggested forum topics and one lo, one of them is talking about the exact same issue, albeit on a different website. In this thread I learn ā from you ā that Iām using an out-of-date version of Brave, something that I never would have learned myself since the browser itself did not inform me, nor did it advise me that thereās an update available.
Now, you were correct, I had the new browser installed, but the old browser was still active when I re-attempted to access the Daily Wire. Closing the old browser and opening the new one fixed the issue. But that being said, I only learned this by happenstance, and not by design. Thatās on the Brave developers, not me.
The fact that this conversation is even happening is evidence that something went wrong communicating between dev and users.
The browser has diligently informed me whenever a new update is available, which leads one to believe that when they download that update, that they are using the most current, up-to-date version of the software.
Yet here I am, and youāre telling me āthe version of Brave youāre using is out of date.ā Well, how was I supposed to know?
The Drudge Report links are also being blocked - no rhyme or reason except political. If BRAVE engages in the kind of censorship that FB, Google, and other social media itāll be all but useless. This will likely continue until BRAVE stops using crowdsourced blacklists.
Brave can continue to deny this all they want. But the fact is, for the first time ever, I canāt watch a news clip on Foxnews.com. Dangerous site blocked? Donāt give me that load of you-know-what about updating the browser. This is censorship. Something has happened at Brave - the browser I switched to because it was supposed to be āconservative-friendly.ā Deny Deny Deny - guess what - thatās exactly what a censor-happy-alt-left-liberal would do. Lie all you want. You are intentionally blocking content. Iām done with you.