Damn, I spent hours today trying to figure out why my brave browser under windows 7 suddenly (started yesterday) started to completely crash on "certain sites" like youtube, it turned out that it is the brave shield, you have to disable it and install "Ublock Origin" instead if you still want to block ads and trackers etc., see
https://community.brave.com/t/....aggregate-topic-outd
Under windows 7, you cannot update brave to the latest version because they disabled the updates and brave does not support windows 7 anymore, which sucks btw. and for me this is a big dent in the reputation of brave browser IMHO.

Aggregate Topic: Outdated Brave crashing on YouTube - Browser Support - Brave Community
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Aggregate Topic: Outdated Brave crashing on YouTube - Browser Support - Brave Community

I’m gathering all these topics into one, as I’m getting annoyed at all the duplicate topics. They are constantly drowning out important issues people are having. As for this issue, here’s the main points for those of you