Twitter is broken in Brave please help me fix it

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@Mollie

I am providing you with a lot of information. You might study the following, and find that you will try some of the settings, but not others. That is OK.

This is sort of a crash course, that gets you behind the scenery of ‘just a few settings choices’. You might skip all of it, but keep the info around, for future reference - when you are prepared to dig in and troubleshoot.

In the following settings and illustrations, some of the settings are temporarily set for difficult website connections involving a Sign-In. IF temporary, I’ll note that: (temporary).

At: brave://settings/security:

  • DISABLE: Always use secure connections (‘HTTPS Only’ toggle switch) (temporary)
  • DISABLE: Use secure DNS

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I use Brave Shields v1. I think that the instructions for Brave Shields v1, are more detailed and helpful.

If you are interested in using Brave Shields v1, then in a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://flags . . . and search, there, for: Enable Brave Shields

  • DISABLE: Enable Brave Shields v2
  • ENABLE: Enable Brave Shields v1

You DO NOT have to use Brave Shields v1, but the site-specific Shields v1 (Lion icon) at the right end of the Brave Browser window’s URL address field, provides panels with better control over site-specific Shields settings.

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Now, check the Brave Browser Global Shields settings - in a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/shields

  • DISABLE: Auto-redirect AMP pages (always)
  • DISABLE: Prevent sites from fingerprinting me based on my language preferences (temporary)
  • Trackers & ads blocking: Standard (temporary - usually Aggressive)
  • Enable: Upgrade connections to HTTPS (‘HTTPS Everywhere’ toggle switch) (always)
  • Enable: Block scripts
  • Block fingerprinting (aka Fingerprinting blocking): STANDARD (temporary - usually Strict)
  • Block cookies (aka Cookie blocking): Only cross-site (always)

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In Brave Browser > Settings, there are two methods for Allowing specific JavaScript sources:

1st Method for Allowing specific JavaScript sources (click the Summary button):

Summary

In a Brave Browser > New Window: brave://settings/content/javascript

Scroll down that javascript settings page to Allowed to use javascript

Click the Add button

Enter abs.twimg.com as the site . . . but Do Not Enable:

  • Current Private session only

Click the Add button

Repeat those steps for:

  • accounts.google.com
  • api.twitter.com
  • appleid.cdn-apple.com
  • twitter.com
  • www.twitter.com

2nd Method for Allowing specific JavaScript sources (click the Summary button):

Summary

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to each of (you will have to copy and paste these):

  • brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Fabs.twimg.com
  • brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com
  • brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com
  • brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Fappleid.cdn-apple.com
  • brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com
  • brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com

And for each, scroll down and set JavaScript to: Allow

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Clearing Browsing history, Cookies, some Site data, Cache, Autofill form data:

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

For tab Advanced

  • Set: Time range:All time
  • Enable: Browsing history
  • Enable: Cookies and other site data (Signs you out of most sites)
  • Enable: Cached images and files
  • Enable: Autofill form data

Click on the ‘Clear data’ button.

(The ‘Clear data’ button also saves the selections.)

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Cookies check

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/cookies and in the upper-right area of the window, enter into the Search field: twitter

Then, search down the cookies settings page and check to see if twitter shows under Sites that can never use cookies . If exists, then remove the twitter entry.

JavaScripts check

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/content/javascript and in the upper-right area of the window, enter into the Search field: twitter

Then, search down the javascripts settings page and check to see if twitter shows under Not allowed to use javascript. If exists, then remove the twitter entry.

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Clearing DNS cache

Option A

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://net-internals/#dns and click on ‘Clear host cache’

Next, go to: brave://net-internals/#sockets and click on both of the following (in succession):

  • Close idle sockets
  • Flush socket pools

Exit / Quit Brave Browser

Exit / Quit everything else and Restart your computer.

Option B

How to flush DNS cache in Windows OS: ‘https://www.wikihow.com/Flush-DNS’

How to flush DNS cache in Mac OS: In a Terminal.app window, enter at the prompt:

dscacheutil -flushcache

Exit / Quit everything else and Restart your computer.

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Notes re what are:

DNS cache:

Socket pool:

With pooling, instead of closing a connection after it is used, we can keep it idle while it waits to handle another request. This saves the resources required to create a new connection.

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