Unable to disable Brave Shields or/and Brave Rewards from command line or preferences

[cra3yk]

Description

Hi

There were useful command line parameters like:
--disable-brave-extension (for disabling Brave Shields)
--disable-brave-rewards-extension (for disabling Brave Rewards)
but now are gone.

I know, that I can get similar functionality by using policy (especially BraveRewardsDisabled set to 1 in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\BraveSoftware\Brave) but there is no policy to disable Brave Shields at all (and to do that You need an admin rights)

Why is so important for me.

1. testing my extensions so I'm sure that both Brave extension are not interacting with
2. for ecommerce/shop sites that redirecting into payment websites (multiple redirects from payment sites like payu to bank-provided auth websites, when You authorize Yourself) - in some cases active Brave Shields interrupts (by blocking/breaking js scripts) and whole select, check, buy, pay, payment complete are not finished.
3. when I tested with uBlock Origin enabled I need to disable Brave Shields (to make sure that there is only uBlock Origin in charge to filter web requests and pages)

(Now I'm keeping Firefox for these sites with uBlock Origin, but when I encounter such website, I'm able to disable uBlock completely (in extension page), do "buy/pay" things, then re-enable.

When the both command line parameter had worked, I had two shortcuts for brave - the default one, and secondary with --disable-brave-extension and --disable-brave-rewards-extension for such purpose (and for my hobby extension developing).

I'm the "Brave" guy - I like this flavor of Chrome much more than the original one (or clones like Vivaldi), but now I'm considering to ditch this browser in favor of Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium (but I will miss Brave Shields)

Please bring back those two command line switches or provide different method (in prefs?) to disable Brave Shields and Brave Revards

Steps to reproduce

1. Run brave.exe with --disable-brave-extension --disable-brave-rewards-extension

Actual result

Nothing happens.

The last version, when --disable-brave-rewards-extension works was 1.45.121.
I don't remember, after which version the --disable-brave-extension switch stops working.

Expected result

Disabled state of Brave Shields and Brave Rewards

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 1.70.117 Chromium: 129.0.6668.59, Windows 10 22H2, Windows 11 24H2. (Windows version doesn't matter here)

Channel information

• release (stable)
• beta
• nightly

Reproducibility

• with Brave Shields disabled
• with Brave Rewards disabled
• in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

No response