2-year-old BUG: cannot remove "Sites that can always use cookies"

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@100WattWalrus , @craciu25yt

In a Brave Browser - New Window, go to: brave://flags

Search for: Enable Brave Shields

  • DISABLE: Enable Brave Shields v2
  • ENABLE: Enable Brave Shields v1

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In a Brave Browser - New Window, go to: brave://settings/shields

  • Block cookies (aka Cookie blocking): Only cross-site

Visit the cookie-troubled website and set the site-specific Shields (Lion icon) panel setting to UP and the settings to Aggressive/Strict . . . and Cross-site cookies blocked . . . and then open a New Window to brave://settings/cookies and try the Trash can.

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Go to: brave://settings/cookies

  • Enable: Block third-party cookies
  • Disable: Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows

Attempt to remove all: Sites that can always use cookies

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In a New Window, visit the problematic website - that is a source of cookies that you still cannot remove.

Click on the site-specific Shields (Lion) icon at the right end of the URL address field.

  • Set: Shields UP
  • Set: Cross-site cookies blocked

Next, Right-click on the Padlock icon at the left end of the URL address field.

Scroll down in the resulting pop-down window, to . . . and click on . . . Cookies

A ‘Cookies in use’ window will display (example using the Brave Community website):

Cookies_in_use
Cookies_in_use631×585 62.1 KB

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Notice that there are Allowed and Blocked tabs.

See if you can Remove the undesired source of cookies, therein.

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If all the above does not work, try a reverse . . .

Go to: brave://settings/cookies

Scroll down to Sites that can always use cookies

Click the *Add button

Using the domain of your troublesome website (example: troublesome.com),

Enter [*.]troublesome.com as the site . . . but Do Not Enable:

  • Current Private session only
  • Including third-party cookies on this site

Click the Add button

Enable: Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows

Go to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

Select tab On exit

Enable: Cookies and other site data

Click on the ‘Save’ button.

Exit / Quit Brave Browser

Restart your computing device.

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If problem remains, certainly try:

What @CerealLover suggests, below.

And, try:

What @chh_68 suggests:

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