yep, I was able to solve this issue. I thought it was Brave when I found no similar issues with Edge or Steam Browser. However, when I installed Opera GX, I found some messed up crap in the Privacy Policy, then I encountered the same issue that annoyed me so much with Brave (certain websites take forever to load like Google). I fixed this by doing the following:
- I changed my DNS to Cloudflare
- I connected to a VPN server through ExpressVPN
- I browsed the web a bit, then disconnected from the VPN
- I restarted my PC
after that the problems, I had no longer existed. I wish I never brought Opera to my device though. I don’t trust them, although their GX browser looks so cool. I uninstalled Opera GX though and I never uninstalled Brave cuz of my data.