Brave doesn't keep the settings like "deactivating brave shields" or "cookie settings"

[Suryavarman-II]

Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

Brave doesn’t keep the following settings:

1. Brave Shields / Disable “Trackers & ads blocking”:
   – I’ve disabled “Trackers & ads blocking” but after closing and restarting the browser, it sets back to standard.

2. Cookie settings:
   I’ve enabled “Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows” which works fine. However, websites on the exceptions list won’t be remembered after a browser restart and the list will be wiped out.
   For example I added “https://duckduckgo.com/” to “Sites that can always use cookies” but the browser doesn’t keep the settings.

Expected result:

1. When I choose to disable “Trackers & ads blocking”, the browser needs to respect this settings like it did in previous versions.

2. “https://duckduckgo.com/” is added to the list for “Sites that can always use cookies” because this allows me to keep the settings on this website after a browser restart while the function “Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows” is enabled.

Brave Version: V1.38.117

Additional Information:
In previous releases i hadn’t these issues.

[289wk]

@Suryavarman-II

UPDATED

In order to restore the Shields UP default setting . . .

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

For tab Advanced:

• Set ‘Time range’ to: All time
• ENABLE: Site and Shields Settings

Click on the “Clear data” button.

(The “Clear data” button saves the selections.)

–

In a Brave Browser > New Window, return to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

Return to tab Advanced:

• Set ‘Time range’ to: All time
• DISABLE: Site and Shields Settings

Click on the “Clear data” button.

(The “Clear data” button saves the selections.)

–

In a Brave Browser > New Window, return to: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

For tab On exit:

• DISABLE: Site and Shields Settings

Click on the “Clear data” button.

(The “Clear data” button saves the selections.)

–

Go to: brave://settings/cookies

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

When you need to clear, use the tools at: brave://settings/clearBrowserData

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[Suryavarman-II]

Thanks for the instructions. That doesn’t work because it won’t clear cookies.
The browser needs to clear everything except cookies and site settings for https://duckduckgo.com/.

However, it works with following settings:

brave://settings/clearBrowserData

For tab On exit - set:

• Disable: Cookies and other site data
• Disable: Site and Shield Settings (it was enabled, that’s why it didn’t work like i want it to be)

brave://settings/cookies

• Enable: Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows
• Add website to Customized behaviors
  – Sites that can always use cookies
  – In my situation it’s https://duckduckgo.com/

[289wk]

@Suryavarman-II

UPDATE - MY MISTAKE in my previous reply 2, above; now fixed. (For the first go at the Advanced tab, I originally had intended to write ENABLE but mistakenly wrote Disable. Apologies. And a ‘Duh’.)

I would stick with the settings that I recommended; you wanted to preserve your Shields settings.

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Now . . .

In a Brave Browser > New Window, go to: brave://settings/content/siteDetails?site=https%3A%2F%2Fhtml.duckduckgo.com

Enable: JavaScript

And do not be tempted by the other settings.

–

Next, go to brave://settings/cookies

Scroll down that settings page, to Sites that can always use cookies

Click the Add button

Enter https://html.duckduckgo.com:443 as the site.

Do not Enable

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

Click the Add button

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[Suryavarman-II]

Thank you for your help. I just edited my previous comment and it now preserve the shield settings.