Hi, I connect to and use 3 different Wifi Networks. I use the guest wifi in my apartment complex, plus another one from my neighbor, and finally another one I have of my own. They are all crappy and have random downtime.
Something I noticed recently, is that rather then being stored on MY COMPUTER, My Saved Logins are in fact being leaked and stored on the guest wifi Network.
This is confirmed because I went to Gamefaqs, and when connected to Lam Guest, it fills out the auto fill field and I can login. But I went there again connected to a different network, it DID NOT give me the auto fill option. The browser didn’t remember it. I had to retype everything from scratch!
This information is supposed to be saved in the browser security itself, and therefore should NOT have anything to do with what wifi network you happen to be connected to.
It seems the information is instead stored in some kind of cloud that is leaked to whatever network you are using, so that the admins of those networks or the internet companies would have access to all your personal passwords.
Try it out for yourselves, and should someone who reads this decide to start a class action lawsuit sometime in the future, let me know.
I guess since Brave uses Chrome, it really can’t be trusted. Well, guess I’m going back to Firefox.
Sounds like it may be an issue with the autofill or the profile being used, rather than “leaked information” as again, it’s literally not possible. Can you consistently reproduce this behavior every time you switch networks? For example, if this was true/for this to be an issue, you should be able to save your login for this site (https://community.brave.com) or any site, login on one wifi network, switch networks (ensuring that you do not switch profiles or change any other settings) and reproduce the behavior every time.
Alternatively, if you ever use your devices/laptops in another home or public network (like a Starbucks), you would never be able to login to any website using credentials saved in your browser which is obviously not true or we would see thousands of reports about this behavior.
It is and it does not.
I just did and I was not able to reproduce the behavior you’re describing. I switched to my guest network and was able to login to everything normally.
Brave does not “use Chrome”. Brave uses the underlying Chromium engine — as do many other popular browsers (MS Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc, DuckDuckGo, Kiwi browser, Yandex browser — even the built in Samsung Internet browser on mobile devices).
Further, we work very hard to remove anything that would send, share, or leak your data anywhere outside of your machine without your explicit permission. We document these changes here: