v1.0.1

Brave Shields as a standalone Chromium extension.

Works on Chrome, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi, Opera, Thorium — anything Chromium-based.

What's new in 1.0.1

Per-site controls

• Standard / Aggressive ad blocking — Aggressive adds extra first-party trackers (Google Analytics, Hotjar, Segment, FullStory, etc.)
• Cross-site / All / None cookie blocking — All also wipes existing cookies so you actually log out
• Settings persist per-hostname and are enforced via dynamic DNR rules

Stats and badge

• Block counts split into ads, scripts/trackers, and fingerprinting buckets
• Added uBlock Privacy filter list as the fingerprinting source
• Badge shows the umbrella total

Popup UI

• Segmented controls with sliding pill replace the old dropdowns
• Fixed the "jumping pill" on popup reopen
• New gradient shield icon, desaturates when shields are off

Incognito

• Manifest now declares split mode (no state leak between profiles)
• Popup shows a dismissable one-click hint to enable it

YouTube

• Catch-all JSON.parse hook for ad fields the fetch/XHR hooks miss
• Mid-roll ads get muted, sped up to 16x, and seeked to end — original state restored after

Twitch

• The custom Twitch ad-blocker script was temporarily removed in this release to be reworked and added back in a future version
• Generic filter-list and cosmetic blocking still apply to twitch.tv in the meantime

Misc

• Dynamic DNR rules re-sync on service worker startup
• Removed dead code

Install

Download brave-shields-extension-v1.0.1.zip, extract, go to chrome://extensions, enable Developer Mode, click "Load unpacked", select the extracted folder.