Brave is currently shitting the bed on me in what I fear is not an April Fool's joke, so I'm soliciting opinions. What browsers are you all using? What do you trust to not spy on you? Which browsers aren't thoroughly infected with ideological rot?
Obviously Google Chrome is a poisoned well, but are there any out there that pass muster?
i'm 99% certain the problem is youtube.
open brave but don't restore your tabs
turn off the shields entirely in settings
restore your tabs, close all the youtube ones
then turn shields back on in settings and restart brave
it's been working for me since i did this
It's too late, I uninstalled and am now unable to get an installer to actually install the software. It may indeed have been saved Youtube tabs fucking me over, but at this point I find it more concerning that the installer is dead on arrival. Something fishy is going on. I even dug out my old installer which I used four or five years ago when I first switched...no luck. Everything's dead.
I agree with u/FuckGenderPolitics. The only explanation I can find with that is that you have leftover parts of the install on your machine. Even if you don't plan on reinstalling Brave, you should still check out the control panel to make sure that it had been fully uninstalled, and then check your "/program files" folder (or wherever else you installed it) to make sure that the folder is completely erased. Keep your computer as clean as possible from unused files; it's just good practice. Also, clean all your cookies.
Assuming you don't intend on reformatting your computer entirely in the near future, of course.
I think there's still some junk left over in %LocalAppData%, so maybe I'll try clearing that out later this week and see if I can't salvage this. I really did not need this headache right at the start of my week.
That's really odd. I wonder if there's bits and pieces left over from an incomplete uninstall. If you ever feel like giving it a go again you should make sure it's completely wiped from your system down to the registry before attempting a reinstall.
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yeah i got nothing for that