Brave Shields Whitelist

Custom shields settings that are address specific. Say I want to block scripting, well if I open Reddit, it doesn’t work. It would be nice to whitelist reddit and specifically select what shields I want up for the site. Most of my browsing I do want aggressive blockers up, but there are some sites I either trust, or must trust out of necessity that would be nice to whitelist specific shield features rather than manually turning off features or relaxing blockers every time I go to said site. I selected Desktop as seeing this on Windows and Linux would be my priority, but I would love to see it on IOS and Android eventually as well.


@sillygoose this is how Shields already works: https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/360023646212-How-do-I-configure-global-and-site-specific-Shields-settings

Global Shields settings (Settings --> Shields) determine the default Shields settings that will be applied to any site you visit.

However, when you visit that site, accessing Shields from the Shields panel (Brave icon in the address bar) changes the site specific Shields settings – this will adjust the Shields settings for that site only and these settings persist.

You mentioned Reddit so we’ll use that as an example. If you have scripts blocked by default (Globally) for all sites, when you land on reddit, the site breaks. To resolve this while preserving your global Shields settings, you would open the Shields panel while on reddit and toggle the Block scripts option “off”. Now, scripts are allowed for reddit and will remain allowed for reddit until you change the setting again (or clear site/Shields data from the browser).

Hope this helps.