Those protocols are in fact free, and there are even routers that can act as server/client or just server. But then, try to use a commercial grade router to try to achieve high speed connections, you sometimes can’t, because they need good processor and memory because of the encryption making connections slower, especially OpenVPN. The only solution I found for this, is to manually change the state of the selected filters in the settings file “Local State”. What OS are you using where the issue occurred (be as specific as possible, eg Win 10, Win 11, macOS Ventura v13.3.1)? If the issue did occur after a crash, providing us with the crash report ID would be helpful (you can do this by going to brave://crashes and sharing the crash report ID left under the event) Is Brave able to stay open long enough for you to go to brave://crashes? If so, try to submit crash logs and provide crash report ID.

I do not user VPN and the only extension I use is pw manager, which is enabled, and which I reset, cleared and relogged in but still having same issues. followed by the ID of each filter and it’s state (true or false). What I did is used the replace function in notepad and changed the state of each filter to false. Just be mindful to not overdo it and start changing settings with the replace function. For me the Adlists go up to the point where it states the darkmode status. I did the renaming workaround to open the crash log and there don’t seem to be any crashes reported And for all those bug repors here on the forum: I read a lot of them and to be honest, most of the time people are just too lazy to wait one or two days, do misunderstand a thing or have done something wrong by themselves. I’ve rarely seen any cases where any large sum of BAT were lost – most of the time they could be recovered very easily and the Brave team was always helpful if you take the time to write a detailed report instead of just complaining with one-liners like “where’s my BAT? Help!”…

Problem occurred just over a week ago after updating to the previous version to this one I am on now. As this is an important issue, rather than waiting for a fix to come from upstream (as we often do with Chromium based issues), we are attempting to see if this is something that is within our scope to fix ourselves. Note that this is a non-trivial issue and a rather large undertaking and may take some time. You can read more about this in the “Advanced reading” section below. Actions users can take to help https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/understanding-the-exception-types-in-a-crash-report”

The current implementation of VPN on Desktop works on macOS and … Windows using OS specific code. This has some limitations which don't offer the best customer experience. Here are some examples: INSUFFICIENT INFO WILL GET THE ISSUE CLOSED. IT WILL ONLY BE REOPENED AFTER SUFFICIENT INFO IS PROVIDED--> You can use their free ProtonVPN, it’s your choice but free costs them a lot of money, so maybe you should start by wondering: Why are they so caritative giving things for free and losing money doing that?YoloSwaggins Renaming would have been a workaround more than a fix. It would have been nice to be able to have pursued on your issue to determine the problem and have teams work with you to get a proper fix. That said, I’m going to ask you some questions and we’ll see how much you can provide. I wanted to update you all on the status of this issue and assure you that our developers are actively looking into it. Issue is likely Chromium based Personally, I hate anything that greatly restricts my capabilities. The purpose of a computer, for me, is so I can visit anywhere I want and install any program I desire. With that always does come with increased risk, but if you use common sense you generally won’t have issues.