My site seems to be listed, but it shouldn't be

Brave Rewards Creators
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I don’t normally use Brave, but we have had complaints today that people are having their browsers checked when they try to visit. I couldn’t see any issues, but when I tried to connect to my site using 4G, and not the router, a message came up “Brave Shields UP
1 Ads and other creepy things blocked”
I have never seen this before, and there is definitely nothing evil on my site.
There was a list of sites after this, and my site was mentioned. But then I lost the connection, and haven’t seen the message again.

How do I find what Brave thinks is an ad (there aren’t any) and if that list is a list of bad sites, how do I get off it?

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@pedro99

Tips regarding Brave Shields:

I have more success, with:

  • Brave Shields UP, but . . .
  • Either Allow All Cookies or Block 3rd Party Cookies, but NOT Blocking All Cookies
  • Allowing JavaScripts from specific sources, but NOT Allowing All JavaScripts
  • Trackers & Ads treatment: Aggressive (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting
  • Fingerprinting (aka footprinting) blocking: Strict (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting

I almost NEVER use:

  • All of Brave Shields UP
  • All of Brave Shields DOWN

Shields Basics

How do I configure global and site-specific Shields settings?

How do I use Shields while browsing?

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Thanks for the reply, but I wasn’t concerned about my usage of Brave Shields, I don’t use it. I was concerned that my site may be reported as a bad site for some unknown reason.

I now believe that Brave reports our Javascript which connects Google Analytics, where we see how how many visitors are coming to which pages. So until a better method of collecting anonymous data about the number of visitors comes up, we will have to grin and bear it. it appears to be a very small percentage of visitors using Brave Shields anyway.

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@pedro99

Yes. Ad blockers, content filters, custom filters, block / hide elements tooling, edited hosts files . . . often block / frustrate the sources: google-analytics.com, google-analytics.net, google-analytics.org (and sometimes IP address ranges).

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Agreed. But not by a large percentage. And the results in Google help us to see what attracts and what doesn’t, even if it’s not a full count of all visits