Advice Request Bug or future trend ?

[cryogent]

Is it just me or did I somehow miss it... did the developers at Brave (beta version ) merge the Brave Shields button with Brave Rewards? Because I found that I no longer had the Brave Shields button and after many searches when activating Brave Rewards the Shields button appeared...and when deactivating it both disappear...It seems to me a step in the wrong direction made by them with the obligation to keep both buttons leaving you no choice between them.

 

[silversurfer]

Nope, here on my Brave (Version 1.36.122), I can keep enabled Brave Shields and just disable Brave Rewards, works as usual You may trying to reset your user profile on Brave.

 

[cryogent]

On stable release I don't think it is on for the moment. I have beta version (is mentioned in post) on 2 desktop, work and home and in both i have this feature/bug.
Beta version is 1.38.67

 

[silversurfer]

On stable release I don't think it is on for the moment. I have beta version (is mentioned in post) on 2 desktop, work and home and in both i have this feature/bug.
Beta version is 1.38.67

I see now, before fully overlooked you are speaking about Brave beta version only, I'm sorry for missing that!

Anyway, I tried Brave beta on my laptop. Confirmed here it's same like you describe, impossible to disable icon of Brave Rewardsand keep Brave Shield icon enabled.
Really bad move from Brave developers, let's hope for enough users complaining about that

 

[silversurfer]

Just a small note: I tried new (stable) version of Brave 1.37.109

Release Channel 1.37.109

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community.brave.com

There it's still possible to hide Brave Rewards and keep icon of Brave Shields, but we will see what happens in upcoming releases...

 

[cryogent]

Let's hope that in the future, they won't include this feature in the stable version.

 

[cryogent]

It looks like it was a bug after all, i just updated my Brave Beta from 1.38.71 to 1.38.75 and that issue no longer exists.
Hiding Brave Rewards doesn't hide the Brave Shields icon.