I switched to using brave browser due to its privacy centric design. Unfortunately, level 1 techs forum doesn t show up. The entire page is blank. I dont know if this is because of third party scripts or cookie tracking (which are disabled in brave). Obviously i am posting this on something else (chrome) . But I am really liking brave.
Oh no I didnât mean that it would prevent loading it, just that I disagreed that you donât have any third party tracking here. Downloading those fonts would still leave a log on googleâs server somewhere.
Youâre not wrong, but âusing third party resourcesâ is a very, very different thing than ânot having third party trackingâ.
If you want to De-Google, thatâs perfectly fine, but setting network ingress rules is your responsibility. Also much faster than sending requests to every site owner on the internet to update their themes.
Iâd recommed blocking domains (including gstatic) you donât want to visit via Pihole. This video is about running it on Synology, but it can be run on anything with Bash (like a docker/lxc container or virtual machine). This protects from that network-wide, on all of your devices, regardless of browser.
I donât see how itâs âvery, very differentâ. They get all information needed for tracking. Ok sure they wonât get more detailed tracking that they could with Javascript script.
We wouldnât need to use Pi-hole and bunch of plugins if website owners made sure their website didnât hand over user information to third party. Yeah, this forum and website is doing better than most other websites though.
Not saying youâre wrong (I also block the various domains used by Google gstatic, doubleclick etc) , just saying itâs not really on topic for this thread. (I also detail threads terribly)
If you are concerned that you are being tracked via downloading web fonts from CDNâs then you should probably not use the internet at all. Not trying to be snarky; just honest.
To the topic at hand, I also use the Brave browser and it works just fine (current latest).
OPâs problem is on his machine, p[probably with a setting. If they canât figure it out then should revert Brave to stock settings and disable any plugins/extensions. If it still doesnât work then Iâd be surprised but that would provide a better base to troubleshoot from.
Javascript is needed for the site to work since its build with EmberJS.
Or website owners could stop using those CDNs whenever possible. There is a great addon⌠and I apologize for further going off-topic, but it seemed relevant to this.
i did reset brave settings and now its fine. i really dont know what the issue was - javascript was not disabled. it might have been the font thing because the background rendered fine- just no content. anyway now everything is back to ânormalâ.
Not downloading fonts doesnât block rendering the page entirely, if anything it would stop fonts from rendering. But even that just falls back to a system default.
Also disabling JavaScript does not block Discourse from rendering either, it has a JavaScript-less mode for crawlers and such.
Use the Chrome version⌠why would there be a âBraveâ version in the first place?