This has been mentionned before. IDK why you are not doing anything about it. Our privacy is compromised, because of something that was obviously made by choice… which goes agaisnt your values you are promoting…
Would be great if we could choose which browsing data could be deleted when ‘‘Clear data on exit’’ is selected.
‘‘Forget me when I close this site’’ doesn’t work. Huge turn off, because that was problem/request sloved.
I went to ‘‘Site settings’’, ‘‘On-device site data’’, unselected the option, and added a website I trust in the exceptions.
The problem is that I still have browsing data saved, because the browsing history and cached images and files are still on device. Because I can’t select ‘‘Clear data on exit’’ without deleting the data saved for that one exception.
So I can’t have privacy…
In one, I have to go through a website I trust, but without the settings I want (Because it keeps getting resetted) so without my settings of choice, my privacy is compromised.
On the other, I can have my trusted website with settings I want, but my browsing history and cached files are on device, which compromise my privacy.
Sure it does. Plenty of people been using it and saying it does exactly what it should. Are you not using or what are you saying?
Browsing History is something else. Forget me when I close this site is only about cookies. It erases the cookies from the site so it’s like you never was there. It’s not meant to erase your History or anything on your side.
If you want to clear things like History when you Exit, you would choose that for On Exit like below:
But you’re right, if you choose Cookies and other site data then it will erase all cookies. You would be signed out of everything. So you wouldn’t use that.
If you do Site and Shields Settings then it would erase any individual choices you made about all websites, including toggling Forget me when I close this site back to default. So generally you wouldn’t do this. The only thing On Exit anyone would want/need to do in general is maybe History and/or Cached images and files.
FFS. It’s the second time in a row I ask support, and you guys don’t bother checking the paltform I mentionned. It’s for ANDROID. The option of choosing which data to be deleted ON EXIT isn’t there!!!
And NO, I confirm! The ‘‘Forget me’’ doesn’t work. Partially. Went on Reddit. Got 10kB stored data and 8 cookies. Closed. Reopened blank, checking reddit.com settings. 5.6kB and 6 cookies. That’s not 0. Went on reddit, still logged in…
@MisterValentin First, I want to remind you that I’m just another active user trying to help. I’m not employed by Brave nor am I any type of paid support. I provide potential solutions based on what others and the Brave community have shared. By engaging with others, I help keep topics active so those who can assist may see them.
It’s been a couple of years since I switched from Android to iPhone. I thought I recalled that the clear data option on Android allowed you to choose what to clear, like History, Bookmarks, Image Cache, etc., but perhaps I’m wrong. After you pointed out it isn’t, I dug out my old Android device and saw that it’s just an on/off toggle that clears everything. So, I agree that this might be something worth requesting.
Regarding Forget me when I close this site, I also tested it. It works on everything except Google. For example, when I set Gmail to forget me, it didn’t. I think this might be due to how Google interacts with Android in general, but it would be good to mention this to the Brave devs.
Another thing I noticed is that merely closing the website wasn’t enough. For instance, when I visited community.brave.com and was logged in, I chose Forget me when I close this site and closed it. When I returned, I was still signed in. However, after closing Brave from the app switcher and reopening it, I was logged out. This could also be addressed.
Ultimately, if you want to purge data from only one site and not others, the new setting (forget when close this site) would be needed instead of Clear data on exit.
@Mattches I wanted to tag you to highlight the main request and what I’m discussing here. Do you know if there are any plans to improve these options on Android?
@MisterValentin,
You are correct, at this time there is no way to select specific data types “on exit” on Android. I do think that the feature would be useful and that all Brave versions should parity one another (mobile or desktop) in as many ways as they can.
As such, I’ve gone ahead and opened the following issue on our Github for our developers to review/consider:
Yep sorry. And I confirm again. It doesn’t work well*. It seems to only work if I close the tab and wait a few seconds before closing the whole app. Which would mean that closing it right away kills the process right away too and the app doesn’t do the work needed
Nice.
And idk if you could pass the message about the ‘‘Forget me’’ thing. It definitely doesn’t work when I close the app right away. I think it kills the process right away and the data is not being deleted. It seems to only work well when I close the tab, wait a few seconds, and then I close the whole app.
@MisterValentin,
The setting directly relies on closing the site itself — so if you simply exit the browser without closing the site, the feature will not trigger. I just tested this on my end and confirmed. Steps to reproduce:
Visit any site and login to it (I used Youtube.com but can be anything)
Tap the Shields icon in the address bar and toggle Forget me when I close this site “on”
Close the browser app, then relaunch it
Observe that you are still logged into the site from step 1 above
Close the tab from the site you logged into, but do not close the browser
Open a new tab and go to the site from step 1 — observe that you are no longer logged in
Yeah I know that’s what I just said…
But closing the app should also close the site… and Like I said and you conveniently didn’t mention is that it takes a few seconds also. You can’t close the tab and re open it right after. Re confirm it… again.
I now confirm also that it doesn’t work on Windows either. When I close the browser, re open it, check in privacy settings the data held. It says none. I do an analyze with CCleaner and it says I still have Internet Cache, Internet History, and Metrics Temp Files. And Windows Web Cache…
And that’s on Windows, with deleting data on exxit enabled???
Then everyone’s tabs would be deleted every time they close the app. That is not the behavior most users want. That said, there is an option in Settings --> Brave Shields & Privacy called Close tabs on exit. If this is enabled, then all open tabs will be closed every time the application is closed.
In Windows/desktop browsers, you need to go to Settings --> History --> Clear browsing data --> [On exit] to do this, and ensure that the relevant data types you’d like to clear when the browser is closed are selected:
