Hmmm...??? I thought the browser just rendered the webpage that is supplied by the server. Wouldn't that be up to the server and the site to have the correct web page available?
And how could a browser actually display an "incorrect" webpage? Not doubting, just curious...
Patrick,
I explained that in post #59 and the following posts in this thread.
What I wanted to do is to find out if Virgin high speed internet is available at my address.
So for browsers other than Brave, one starts to type in ones address and as you type, addresses pop up underneath the field where you type with suggestions based on the characters you have already typed.
At some point your address shows up - I think the addresses that are suggested are pulled from Canada Post - and you select your address from these suggestions that come up.
That address is then populated on the next page in a somewhat different format and when you click "check address" (or words to that effect), Virgin will come up with either Yeah or Nay - in my case it was "Yeah"
If I do the same thing on Brave, I don't get any suggestions at all, I then get to the end of typing in my address and the message is "Address can't be found"
It then takes me to the second page (same as the other browsers), but there is nothing pre-filled and I type in my address into the various fields.
Once that is done and I click on "check address", the answer will come back "Sorry, high speed internet is not available at that address"
But I knew it was because I'm already using it - I was just trying to change providers.
If that hadn't been the case, I would have taken Virgin Internets feedback using the Brave browser as correct and not checked any further.
What is happening is that the Virgin database of addresses and what internet service is available at that address is set up using the Canada Post address database.
So if the address is not a 100% match, the Virgin website will come back and say it's not available.
The first step on the Virgin website is to select the Canada Post version of my address - for some reason the Brave browser ignores that bit of code of the Virgin website.
I initially thought this was a by-product (or by-problem) because of the tracker and ad blocking provided by Brave, but when I tried the same procedure with Cliqz, it worked fine.
There were other issues with Brave as well, the most severe ones I mentioned earlier in this thread.
BTW- this address versification is done by Amazon as well; I just noticed that yesterday when I placed an Amazon order.
There is brings up the address they pull up from somewhere (I assume it's Canada Post) and they then give one the choice of using the address you typed in or the one they brought up.
What basically happens is