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Personally I think this was a bad move. The flags to bring back Shields v1 was a remedy for the bad redesign.
Why on earth did you get rid of being able to change ALL options with ONE click to the shield? AND THEN remove the old and superior one completely!? The new one is worse. Now I'm having to download an older version just to get the shield back... For the third time.
@palianskas @tristansly what exactly were you able to do with the older version that you're unable to now? (genuinely curious - more info super appreciated)
I know enabling/disabling specific scripts is affected; for that, you can always check out the NoScript extension. But could you elaborate on your scenario a bit more?
It adds a unnecessary and pointless click by not exposing the entire "Advanced Menu" when you click the shield. Being as you have to unblock scripts on basically all sites to work, it's adding unnecessary clicks to every new site I visit.
I am turning off Brave's Shield as it not only has been redesigned to be less efficient, it doesn't seem to work right now as I am having to go to each sites settings and disable javascript manually; using ublock Origin to cover atm. What a pain. You had a good thing for a while!
@palianskas @tristansly what exactly were you able to do with the older version that you're unable to now? (genuinely curious - more info super appreciated)
I know enabling/disabling specific scripts is affected; for that, you can always check out the NoScript extension. But could you elaborate on your scenario a bit more?
Additionally, I am using Brave so I DON'T have to use NoScript. Additionally, I prefer ublock origin for quite a number of years now. If I have to use NoScript, then I can use whatever browser I want. This is where Brave excelled, but now it seems the devs are making it harder to control permissions by removing granular control over what shield features are activated/deactivated. I don't want to turn the whole shield off, that would be silly if all I need to do is turn scripts off. Why not add an option that makes the whole menu flyout every time?
With Shield V1, I had setup for it to block all scripts by default and selectively enabling them if I deemed the site actually needed them. As it is now, I have switched to using uBlock Origin's filters, but can't seem to get it configured properly. NoScript seems like a plug-in solution for my use case, however, either because it's something I haven't got used to or because the UI is abhorent (in my opinion), using it isn't optimal compared to Shield V1
@tristansly @palianskas thanks for elaborating. An alternative to NoScript would be uMatrix https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcf
The saving of the "Advanced" menu (expanded or collapsed state) has been fixed 👍
Also, just to give some context to why the per-script controls were removed from Brave in the first place, we decided to remove the feature for three reasons:
However, that being said, we will revisit the feature if we can find an easier way to re-implement given Chromium internals, or if we believe a significant portion of Brave users would use the feature if made available again
Please bring back the v1 shields, the alternatives offered are crap and not useful for what the shields were doing.
Please bring back the v1 shields, the alternatives offered are crap and not useful for what the shields were doing.
Agree hardcore. Brave no fun to use now. Script blockers not fun to use anymore, if ever they were. One click on menu, give me ALL POSSIBLE OPTIONS one menu. NO AVANCED SUBMENU please
Now that Shields v2 UI (a.k.a. WebUI Bubble Panel) has been released for some time, we can remove the older version.
This will reduce resource usage as there are some background event hooks constantly running as part of the previous version of the UI.
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