In a couple/few short weeks I've grown really attached to Brave and it would feel like I was taking a couple massive steps backwards if I was forced to go back to using Chrome as my primary browser again. don't know if it was something I messed up, but at least we're back in business. Still not really sure what I did to break it. I'm now able to access all my local domains via their FQDN once again. I've imported my bookmarks from the HTML file I previously exported, now going through and attempting to configure things the way I had them previously, but that seems to have resolved my issue. Long story short, I finally ended up removing Brave browser AGAIN (as first time I neglected to remove the %AppData% Brave folder, double checked my work with Bulk Crap Uninstaller, rebooted and then proceeded to re-install Brave. I even went so far as to try and capture a NetLog dump to see if I could figure out what might be amiss. Sadly, it didn't appear to correct anything. > Delete domain security policies Input a domain name to delete its dynamic domain security policies (HSTS and Expect-CT). Thank you, I went in and fiddled with the options page you suggested above, tried to use the very last/bottom tool:

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