Brave Browser: Azure Portal - Something Went Wrong

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR - In the last few days (start of 2021), the “Shields Up” feature in the Brave web browser seems to be flagging a JSON file as a cross-site tracker when creating a resource in Azure, causing the blade to not load. To work around this, you can go “shields down” for portal.azure.com.

I logged on to my machine yesterday, same as any other day, and went to start deploying some resources to Azure via the Azure Portal for a customer, nothing out of the ordinary. I normally use the Brave browser, which for me has a number of built in benefits. Though, when I tried to deploy a resource, I was faced with a basic error message:

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Brave Browser: Azure Portal - Something Went Wrong