Try . . .
Clear your browsing data
In a New Window, go to:
“brave://settings/clearBrowserData” (no quotes)
Click on “Advanced”
Change “Time range” to “All time”
Select all three of:
- Cookies and other site data
- Cached images and files
- Site and Shields Settings
and click the “Clear data” button.
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Clear host cache, close idle sockets, and flush socket pools
In a New Window, go to:
“brave://net-internals/#dns” (no quotes)
and click on “Clear host cache”
In a New Window, go to:
“brave://net-internals/#sockets” (no quotes)
and click on both
- “Close idle sockets”
- “Flush socket pools”
Restart Brave Browser.
Above steps suggested elsewhere, by @Rethanis
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Another possibility, pertaining to DNS over HTTPS. Ref.:
“https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-over-tls/” (no quotes)
You might, for testing purposes, look over the “Secure DNS” settings:
“brave://settings/security?search=secure” (no quotes)
Perhaps try some of the Custom Providers.
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Given that the source for the webpage, is Google, there may be some Google domain(s) not yet allowed by your Brave Browser Shields - javascript setting(s). You might make entries of (Allow) some of the Google sources, regardless of whether or not: you have been allowing javascript.
In order to learn, what Google sources may be involved, you might use the Developer Tools > Network tool . . . and find possible sources for some of the downloaded items that you observe when Brave Browser visits the website of interest.
How to use Developer Tools > Network
“https://www.lifewire.com/web-browser-developer-tools-3988965”
“https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference/”
“https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/devtools-guide-chromium/”
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PS. How to flush DNS cache in Windows OS:
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