Cookies are not being saved

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This has been happening for a couple of months now in my arch linux (cac
hyos) install, though it did not up until late last year, and has been s
lowly chipping away at my sanity.

To be more specific, it logs me out of most sites (chatgpt, proton.me, r
eddit, etc) but not on Deepseek for example. I’ve looked a bit into it, and I think the issue is that the login cookies are simply not being saved. Why? When I reboot my laptop, sites with shields down still ask for cookie preferences after being set on previous sessions.

And yes, I have:

  • Checked ‘clear on exit’ settings, nothing is set to be cleared.
  • Put shields down on sites for test (claude.ai, proton.me, gmail.com, etc).
  • Tested on both Stable (1.80, though it has been a issue for months) and Beta channels (1.81)
  • Selected ‘Allow all cookies’ globally (not that this should matter, the sites were tested with shields down)
  • No extensions installed.
  • Tested the same sites on Firefox, and all of them work even with a uBlock configured with most filter lists, so I doubt it is due to some OS program cleaning the data.

**Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary):

I’ve tried uninstalling and removing all local data from .cache, .config
and .local, so even a default install of both stable and beta reproduces it.

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

Cookie Settings and logins are simply not read/present/followed by sites after a reboot.

Expected result:

The sites should not ask for the same settings for the cookies, and ideally should auto login.

Reproduces how often:

Always on reboot.

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the m
ain menu):

CachyOS x86_64, Kernel 6.15.4-4, Hyprland 0.49.0, 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-13500H (16) @ 4.70 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]

Brave 1.81.107 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)](https://brave.com/latest/)
Chromium: 138.0.7204.97

Additional Information:

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@RandomUser9001 in your Shields settings, have you enabled Forget me when I close this site?

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I would check both global settings at brave://settings/shields but then also the site specific one via the Shields flyout…the one from the lion icon by the address bar.

To confirm, everything is fine even if you exit the browser and later come back? Does this only happen when you reboot? If so it makes me wonder if it’s not a 3rd party software or something within your OS. It kind of makes me think back to CCleaner or Avast Cleaner type of programs that automatically delete junk files and all. In part of that they were deleting cookies for sites.

Anyway, might be nice to confirm if the “trigger” is rebooting.