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Everyone wants to talk the respective merits of Brave vs Firefox vs ____, but I just want to talk about how the post itself is dumb.

You're installing an extension from a web store. Of course it doesn't work if there is a problem with the backend servers. Where do you expect to get the extension from?

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As far as I understood the backend issue was on Braves end, while the Chrome Web Store was fine.

So installing the extension worked in Chrome, but not in Brave, because they had some backend problems, while the installing of an extension should not need the Brave servers at all.

Brave proxies Google-endpoints to prevent users from unintentionally making contact with Google servers. If our proxy receives a bad request, or has some other unlikely, transient issue, it will respond with a 403 Status (which results in the "Access Denied" message being displayed). In this instance, the user may have been on an out-of-date build of Brave; it's not clear from the report.

Sampson (Brave Team)

Resolved: User had a very out-of-date build of Brave. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471236 for more details.

Must admit this was my question as well. It seemed from the post that the browser was still working but the extensions couldn't be installed. Not ideal but seems like a weird response.

Is the point that there should be a separate source of extension packages or something?

installation doesn't work because of Brave servers, not because of extensions web store, completely unrelated, or at least it should be unrelated in normal browser

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