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

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 In this instance, the user may have been on an out-of-date build of Brave; it's not clear from the report.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)