Brave Opening in Regular Tab of Background Window Instead of Active Incognito Window

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I’ve been using Alfred workflows on my Mac to open various URLs and Queries in Brave. For example, in one script, I run,

open -a "Brave Browser" "$url"

In another script, I run the Default Web Search workflow: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/actions/default-web-search/

These, until recently, would open in my active incognito window, but in the last week or two have been opening instead in my background non-incognito window.

Has there been a recent change to affect this? Is there a setting I can change? Why has this stopped working properly?

Version 1.57.47 Chromium: 116.0.5845.96 (Official Build) (arm64)
MacBook Air, M1, 2020

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Just wanted to let you know I am in the same boat.

I’ve tried in both Brave and Google Chrome (most recent versions) and they’ve both demonstrated this new, undesired behavior. It must be Chromium-related.

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That’s for replying.

I couldn’t find a Brave setting for this, but altering the open command worked for me.

open -na "Brave Browser" --args -incognito "$url" # opens in incognito tab