Can't Upload Images to the 'new Blogger' Interface? [Fix]

I love the look and feel of the 'new Blogger' interface. It looks modern and polished. While I was admiring its clean looks and functionality, soon I noticed however, that I cannot upload images to my blog posts from my local hard disk. Whenever I tried it simply gave me 'docs.google.com refused to connect' error.

Since things were working quite well in the classic blogger user interface, I was forced to switch back to it. Soon however, I somewhat accidentally found the solution thanks to the Brave web browser. You see, like a month or so ago I switched from years from using Google Chrome to Brave (it's amazing! It's slightly lean, fast and secure in many ways compared to Chrome). And Brave comes preinstalled something called 'Shields'. As the name suggests, it 'shields' your identity by filtering certain cookies.

This is a good thing as it block online advertisements and denies access to sites that requests certain details about your browsing history etc for instance. However, sometimes you have to manually intervene, otherwise it could break things up, like in this example. The fix in Brave is very simple.

Switch to 'new Blogger' user interface and once you're inside the post editor click, click on the small lion face icon at the end of the address bar of the Brave browser. Then from the popup, simply turn off 'Shields UP for this site' by clicking on it, as shown below (in the illustration, Shields is still enabled).

That's pretty much it. From then on you should be able to freely upload your image as illustrated below.

What about other web browser users?

If you use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome or any other web browser and are faced with the same issue, then it's most likely that you have either manually installed or the browser came with a cookies filter. Locate that plugin/extension and turn the filtering off once you're inside your post editor.  That should work, unless it's due to something else. 

Why the Classic Blogger UI works?

That's because the classical user interface works its magic by staying within Blogger.com domain. But the new Blogger UI requires access to docs.google.com, which is outside of Blogger.com. That's what causing the issue because that's how cookie filters work (they shield the user by trying to limit the browser's access to the very domain the user is visiting, in each tab).