Only incognito browsing deletes cookies from Default User Profile

[whosithat]

Only incognito browsing deletes cookies from Default User Profile

[diracdeltas]

You can also check brave://settings/clearBrowserData and make sure it's not set to clear all cookies on exit.

[MadhaviSeelam]

Couldn't reproduce the issue in Win 11 or Win 10 using current release 1.66.110

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cc: @rebron

[ShivanKaul]

Wasn't able to repro on MacOS either.

[ShivanKaul]

Can you confirm you don't have "forget me when I close this site" set to be on for facebook.com on the Shields panel?

[whosithat]

Hey everybody,

thanks for your very fast feedback on this! @ShivanKaul pointed into the right direction, I've had the property "forget me when I close this site" turned on globaly in brave.

I've also have selected the setting "Continue where I left" on brave startup. Somehow, if I'm using Brave without incognito mode, it never deletes any cookies from this pages (as these tabs will never be closed, only brave will be shutted down), but when I do the steps, which I've wrote down in the description of this thread, the issue appears.

I thought the incognito is a completly seperated form any brave profile. Is Brave Shield only running in one instance, which will cause this issue?

Many thanks again for your answers!

[rebron]

@whosithat I'm going to go ahead and close this one out per your last comment.

If you have "Continue where you left off" on startup which is the default, you will get new cookies for the sites again. It's not that they weren't deleted, it's just that the pages should be setting them again.

Private browsing/incognito isn't exactly like a new profile since you have bookmarks and extensions available to you. It's just that your browsing history isn't saved.

[ShivanKaul]

It might just be that when you're opening and closing the private window you hit the 30 second timeout for "forget me when I close this site". We keep data around for 30 seconds just to make sure the user didn't accidentally close the tabs for a site.

[whosithat]

If you have "Continue where you left off" on startup which is the default, you will get new cookies for the sites again. It's not that they weren't deleted, it's just that the pages should be setting them again.

That's the point which is confusing me. If I'm just closing brave completly (with "continue where you left off" activated and Shields "forget me when I close this site" also) the cookies will not be deleted / archived / recreated. But if I'm open a single incognito windows they will. I believe this happens, because in the incognito mode start's without any open tab, so brave shield believes that all the other tabs have been closed and will throw away the site data.

The question is: Is that a bug, or a feature? ;-P