VERY Annoying Behavior

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I have exactly the same issue as shown in the provided link and screenshot below and the following is my rant.
I do NOT need brave to hold my hand and stop me from downloading what I INTENTIONALLY choose to download. This behavior is incredibly frustrating for someone like me who downloads a lot of different programs and installers.
Brave needs to let us turn off this annoying feature or risk users, like me, finding a better browser that does not have this frustrating annoyance. This is useless and adds extra clicks, those extra clicks add up over time and become increasingly frustrating and annoying when I am working on something.

Brave please hear our voices and add the ability to disable this entirely!

Link:Disable the file download protection feature

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The image below is of the settings page, where as you can see, even though it is set to “no protection” it still thinks it needs to block my downloads. Come on brave, why?

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@AnnoyedAtYou do me a favor and try to go to brave://flags and look for Download. You should see something like below:

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Enable this and I think it will resolve your issue.

And I think this is completely unrelated, but since your download says Unverified I decided to use that term in Flags as well, Since you don’t want Brave holding your hand, I suppose you would want to enable this anyway.

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Of course, make sure you understand this removes any warnings or protections around the two, so you’ll be putting yourself much more at risk.

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