If a website is not working in Brave, open it and click the Shields (Lion) icon in the address bar. Turn Shields down for that site, or adjust an individual protection in the panel. Brave remembers site-specific choices, so you can troubleshoot without switching browsers or changing protection for every site.
How to change Shields for a broken site
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Open the affected website in Brave.
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Click the Shields (Lion) icon in the address bar. Check that the panel identifies the site you intend to change.
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Choose either to turn Shields down for that site or to open the panel’s advanced controls and change an individual protection.
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Reload the page and check whether it works. If not, restore the previous setting or try a different individual control.
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Brave’s Shields instructions say that site-specific changes are remembered and apply to the site in focus. They normally follow your global defaults until you change them; a site-specific choice remains even if you later change those defaults. The exact labels and layout can vary by platform or browser version, so follow the controls shown in your panel.
Turn Shields down or change one protection?
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Turn Shields down for the site |
Shields stops blocking content on that site that it would otherwise block. |
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Adjust an individual protection |
Change a specific control in the site’s Shields panel. |
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Brave warns that Shields can sometimes cause sites to break. Lowering it may resolve a compatibility problem, but it is not a guaranteed fix: the setting does not establish what caused a particular site to fail.
What the individual controls do
Advanced Shields controls include protections related to trackers and ads, scripts, cookies, fingerprinting, and site data. The Brave controls guide explains these options. If you prefer to retain as much protection as possible, change one control at a time, reload, and see whether the page works before trying another.
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Know the privacy trade-off
Turning Shields down allows the affected page to load content that Shields might otherwise block and disables some privacy protections there. Brave recommends checking that the site is trusted before lowering Shields. The change is site-specific; it does not turn Shields off for other websites. See Brave’s Shields overview for its description of the protection.
If the site still will not work
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Undo the last change if it made no difference, then test a different individual control rather than leaving protections lowered without a reason.
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Check the site again after reloading. A Shields change can help only when a Shields protection is involved.
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If the site works only after Shields are lowered, use Brave’s broken-site reporting route described on its Shields page so the developers can investigate.
Why Shields settings are per site
Brave’s compatibility notes describe a historical change beginning with version 1.30: by default, Brave stopped applying network-level filter-list blocking to same-site subresources. The post says users seeking the more aggressive, occasionally site-breaking behavior could choose the aggressive trackers-and-ads setting. This is version-specific context, not an explanation for every current site failure or a complete account of current defaults. Read Brave’s version 1.30 compatibility post for that historical detail.
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