Brave browser unable to load any site/can't connect to the internet?

This happened today, so maybe it has something to do with the new update? I can’t access any website, it’s just stuck in an endless loading page. I was using a VPN called Exitlag yesterday, which isn’t really for browsing and more for gaming, I thought maybe it could be that but I had it off, I even tried turning it on again to see if that changed anything, but nothing.

The only other thing I could come up with is going into my Firewall and changing both outbound/inbound rules and specifically whitelisting Brave, but that didn’t work either. Anyone else having this problem? How do I fix this?

You can use the console to see what is going wrong, there are a lot of things that can cause this issue like DNS request not resolving, firewalls, proxies, VPN and wrong configuration so it isn’t easy to just guess to what is going on.

Does the same happen in a private window?

Thank you for the tip. The issue fixed itself but I will try this next time.

It fixed itself and I have no idea what I did :person_shrugging: