Big privacy issue: Typing url from bookmarks into address bar goes to search engine!

A few days ago, I started noticing that typing url, that is in my bookmarks, into address bar on iOS goes to my search engine - but I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE THIS DATA WITH ANOTHER PRIVATE COMPANY, ESPECIALLY SEARCH ENGINE! I am ok to share that with my internet provider since they are under a lot of legislation (especially here in EU).

This is a huge issue for me, especially given that I thought Brave is all about privacy - not using Brave on mobile till this gets fixed.


Description of the issue:
write an url.to.address.bar that you have stored in your bookmarks which goes to your default search engine results for ā€œurl.to.address.barā€
How can this issue be reproduced?
iOS

  1. type any.url.to.your.address.bar having this ā† stored in your bookmarks
  2. watch in disbelief results page of a search engine website with results for ā€œany.url.to.your.address.barā€

Expected result:
goes to.the.url.i.typed not to the search engine
Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.70.1 (133)

Mobile Device details
iOS 17.6.1
Additional Information:

Hi and Welcome to the Community and good job for filling out the applicable template, not everyone does so, especially in their first visitā€¦
For future reference though Iā€™d encourage you to use the Brave Community and/or Braveā€™s GiHub page and search function to see if anyone else has discovered your problem, as they have, see belowā€¦

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