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Description of the issue:
I have a couple of accounts on the same website, for whatever reasons. Sometimes I need both of them opened at the same time.
For some reason, and with the “Forget me when I close this site” disabled in Brave Shields, when I close the private window and reload the normal window, the session is lost, and I need to re-login again.
A couple of releases before this, whenever I opened a website in a Private window, in the Brave Storage it appeared with the sunglasses, indicating that the data stored in the browser was from a website in private mode.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Disable “Forget me when I close this site” from Brave Shields.
Open your favourite Fediverse instance in a normal window, and login in an account.
Open the same, with another account, in a Private window.
With both sessions at the same time, close the private Window.
In the normal window, reload, and the session should be closed and you’ll have to login again.
Expected result:
No data deleted from the normal window, since it’s a private session.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.73.91 Chromium: 131.0.6778.85 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Additional Information:
I’m running NixOS, but it happens too on macOS Ventura (latest available).
@epoch,
I don’t think that is what is happening here. I suspect this has to do with the site itself detecting that your accounts associated with the same IP/source (I’m assuming here) were both logged in and log you out for security purposes — or something to that effect.
Can you reproduce this issue with any other site? For example, can you reproduce this by performing the same steps but instead logging into Youtube?
Yes, I can. I tested it with YouTube and Twitch, same behavior: as soon as I close the private window, the normal window looses the session when I reload the website.
It shouldn’t happen, I’ve been using the private window to open 2 accounts on the same site for a long time, it started to happen suddenly.
One private window and one regular. Both are two different Google accounts. Closing out of Private had no impact on normal, even after refreshing.
Also tried on a few other websites. Didn’t matter how I positioned the windows or anything.
This is testing on Windows 11 Pro.
Are you able to replicate each time with no issues? If so, curious if it’s something where you could record a video of it happening and share. Definitely is something weird.
I tried to reproduce it this morning, and it didn’t happen what I reported in the first place. I swear it happens.
But I noticed one strange thing: when logging in into YouTube or Twitch, there is a domain in each one of the websites that always appear as “This website cannot store data on your device” (or the english translation of “No tiene permiso para guardar datos en tu dispositivo”).
I change to “Delete when closing all the windows” (“Eliminar los datos de todas las ventanas”), and reload, and then it appears again as this website cannot store data on your device.
I do specify that domains should delete the data as soon as all the windows/tabs are closed, but I allow every website to store the data, because if not, they break.
Is there any setting that I have enabled that can cause this?
A BB New Private Window has a bigger moat than a BB New Window.
The BB New Private Window moat has priority with regard to some browser/window actions.
Signing on to website.a via a BB New Window and then also signing on to website.a via a BB New Private Window, are different sessions . . . and:
There may be something of the BB New Window that is not insulated from some actions by/of the BB New Private Window.
While the BB New Private Window is likely to be well-insulated from the actions by/of the BB New Window.
From the website’s perspective, the website might not be able to - on every occasion - precisely establish differences between:
some cookie to be stored for the BB New Window session
a same-purpose cookie to be stored for the BB New Private Window session
And/or, from the website’s perspective, the website might decide that the quit/exit by the BB New Private Window, is to be considered a quit/exit by all BB Windows.
When a browser user, with one browser window, signs on to YouTube.com, and in another window, signs on to Gmail.com . . . and later quits/exists the Gmail.com window . . . the YouTube.com window session should continue . . . but THAT decision is effectively made by the Google.com general/“ecosystem” (signed in to one - thus signed in to all) account system.
IMHO, a browser user cannot absolutely maintain logged-in status.
