After reviewing several reports re WhatsApp connection troubles:
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A WhatsApp connection using Brave Browser for desktop and laptop machines, to:
https://web.whatsapp.com/
means that you are also, somehow connecting to FaceBook. In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/socialBlocking . . . and ‘Allow Facebook logins and embedded posts’.
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A screenshot created on my iPhone, while I took a look at the WhatsApp app at Apple’s App Store:
That information - indicating that WhatsApp requires you to give up info about you, your computing behavior, and your computing devices - means that there are some Brave Browser settings that might need to be relaxed.
Some users of WhatsApp, have fixed their WhatsApp connection issue, by completely Resetting their Brave Browser > Settings. Ref. to an earlier reply, herein: ‘Whatsapp Web is not working - #15 by Ath3lstan’ (includes a screenshot).
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Adjust Brave Browser Settings, Clear Cache, Cookies, History, etc., Flush socket pools
You might wish to be more selective, and thus . . .
In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to:
brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.whatsapp.com
There, you might find some settings that are different than, but you can now adjust them to, the default settings for a new Profile:
- Autoplay: Allow
- Ethereum: Ask
- Location: Ask
- Camera: Ask
- Microphone: Ask
- Motion sensors: Block
- Notifications: Ask
- JavaScript: Allow
- Images: Allow
- Pop-ups and redirects: Block
- Ads: Block (Block if site shows intrusive or misleading ads)
- Background sync: Block
- Sound: Automatic
- Automatic downloads: Ask
- MIDI devices: Ask
- USB devices: Ask
- Serial ports: Ask
- File editing: Ask
- HID devices: Ask
- Clipboard: Ask
- Payment handlers: Allow
- Insecure content: Block
- Augumented reality: Ask
- Virtual reality: Ask
- Window placement: Ask
- Fonts: Ask
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Next, in a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData
For tab Advanced - set the following two particular items to:
Time range:All time- ENABLE:
Hosted app data
Click on the ‘Clear data’ button.
Return to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData
For tab Advanced - new Profile defaults are set to:
Time range:All time- Enable:
Browsing history - Enable:
Download history - Enable:
Cookies and other site data(Signs you out of most sites) - Enable:
Cached images and files -
DISABLE:
Passwords and other sign-in data(When Enabled DELETES PASSWORDS) -
DISABLE:
Autofill form data -
DISABLE:
Site and Shields Settings(When Enabled DELETES Shields Settings and RESTORES default: Shields UP for site-specific Shields [Lion icon] panel) -
DISABLE:
Hosted app data
Click on the ‘Clear data’ button.
(The ‘Clear data’ button also saves the selections.)
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Return to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData
In case you wondered . . .
For tab On exit - the new Profile defaults are:
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DISABLE:
Browsing history -
DISABLE:
Download history -
DISABLE:
Cookies and other site data(Signs you out of most sites) -
DISABLE:
Cached images and files -
DISABLE:
Passwords and other sign-in data(When Enabled DELETES PASSWORDS) -
DISABLE:
Autofill form data -
DISABLE:
Site and Shields Settings(When Enabled DELETES Shields Settings and RESTORES default: Shields UP for site-specific Shields [Lion icon] panel) -
DISABLE:
Hosted app data
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Next, in a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/security and set:
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DISABLE:
Always use secure connections(‘HTTPS Only’ toggle switch.) -
DISABLE:
Use secure DNS
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Next, in a Brave Browser > New Window, go to the Global Shields settings: brave://settings/shields and set:
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DISABLE:
Auto-redirect AMP pages -
DISABLE:
Prevent sites from fingerprinting me based upon my language preferences.(I have found, that DISABLE is necessary for some websites.)
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Next, are the new Profile default Global Shields settings for the remaining items. For connecting to WhatsApp, you might temporarily set, to:
- Trackers & ads blocking:
Standard - Upgrade connections to HTTPS: Enable (‘HTTPS Everywhere’ toggle switch)
- Block scripts: DISABLE
- Block fingerprinting:
Standard - Block cookies:
Only cross-site
I say ‘temporarily’, because I favor the ‘Aggressive’ / ‘Strict’ settings, and usually, only relax these settings for difficult Sign-In connections.
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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: whatsapp
Then, search down the cookies settings page and check to see if whatsapp shows under Sites that can never use cookies . If exists, then remove the whatsapp 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: whatsapp
Then, search down the javascripts settings page and check to see if whatsapp shows under Not allowed to use javascript. If exists, then remove the whatsapp 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 socketsFlush 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
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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.’
- Ref. : ‘https://betterprogramming.pub/build-a-tcp-connection-pool-from-scratch-with-go-d7747023fe14’
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For clarity of what are:
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HTTPS Everywhere (‘Upgrade connections to HTTPS’ toggle switch at:
brave://settings/shields) -
HTTPS Only (‘Always use secure connections’ toggle switch at:
brave://settings/security)
Ref., see:
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