Hello everyone,
Brave is based on Chromium, and as such, the browsing history is only of 90 days.
Other Chromium-based browsers have removed that limit and I hope it will be the same for Brave.
Do you have any plan for that? Maybe I can change that myself on my browser?
A browser history is a part of our memory and sometimes we want to find that article, we saw a long time ago (long time being years and not weeks).
Thank you.
i do want to be able to have an option to have way longer browser history, i saw this may be helps anyonewho is asking for the same, but it should be in BRAVE for sure at least as option!
Same here, we wish that there was an option for a built-in export feature so that we can extend the browsing history older than 3 months and export the history for all of The Android And iOS Mobile Devices, by the way, bro. 
Yes! Please extend the browser history!
Yes much needed. Firefox and Vivaldi have itâŚ
I do not understand why the limit is there to begin with. What was the logic behind the Google devsâ decision?
Absolutely no need to have a long history. Seriously, why would you need to know what websites you visited a year ago? Typically if it was important or useful it would be bookmarked. And it can be a lot to even try to sort through. But for those who think itâs important, you can get extensions that help track. (or on Chrome, you can just save it to your Google account overall)
To improve overall performance. The more items in your local history, the slower your browser can become when it tries to access or index that data (e.g., auto-complete suggestions in the address bar).
To reduce used space rather than clogging up peopleâs devices. By limiting how much local data is stored, browsers reduce overall storage footprints.
To reduce potential issues around privacy and security. If an attacker gains physical or remote access to your device, a massive, never-ending browser history could be a treasure trove of personal data. Restricting local history to a shorter time window reduces this risk.
To step away from potential issues with regulatory guidelines. GDPR, LGPD, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, AAPI, and other such regulations by governments state that personal data should not be held onto longer than necessary. It also aligns broadly with the concept of âPrivacy by Designâ embedded in regulations like GDPR.
If we say we need it, your opinion is irrelevant. Then itâs odd to end up telling us that we can keep it with Chromeâs synchronization if we use Brave.
Most browsers allow you to do this, and theyâre no slower or heavier than Brave.
Yes, and if someone gets access to passwords, bookmarks, etc., whatâs the difference? Again, thatâs our problem. Isnât Brave supposed to be very secure? With encryption, recovery keys, etc?
What are you talking about? What rule prohibits a citizen from keeping what he wants concerning him for as long as he wants? ? Besides, I donât understand this argument when, again, there are 36 ways to do it with other browsers, and theyâre not illegal.
There clearly is. Otherwise, this request wouldnât exist, and the Internet wouldnât be plagued with similar complaints.
For the same reason I need to know what sites I visited a month ago. Actually, there is more need to want to know a site you visited a while ago because youâre more likely to have forgotten it.
Most importantly, why not? You do realize weâre talking about plaintext? Does a extra few kilobytes really bother you that much? A PDF takes up more space.
âTypicallyâ is the keyword. Real life isnât perfect or typical. I forget / donât bother bookmarking things routinely. Iâm sure most users donât either. That is if they even bother bookmarking things to begin with. Not to mention, hindsight is 20/20. You donât know what youâll need in a month, let alone a year from now.
We live in an age of terabyte-sized SSDs being a rule, not an exception. HDDs go for $10/TB. My man, do you seriously consider this âclogging up peopleâs devicesâ? How much do you think this forum page took up for your browser to load?
I can assure you this self-cleaning âfeatureâ has nothing to do with privacy or security. Itâs an upstream artifact that comes from Chrome, a product that I assure you doesnât treat your privacy as its priority. More importantly: donât you think that if browsing history were such a huge security liability, they wouldnât have removed it altogether? Donât you think that the recent three months of your browsing history are a lot more relevant than whatever you visited a year ago? By your own logic.
LMAO. Chrome allows infinite history if you log into your account. It would be the opposite (logging in to Googleâs servers would limit history length) if what you were saying were true or at all a concern. Weâre talking about local history. GDPR doesnât apply.
It serves as a database for selected websites / content / shops / etc.
This is extremely useful.
Imagine you bought a âswingâ 5 years ago and it now broke and you would like to buy again the sameâŚ
Or you went to Thailand 3 years ago and there was this super restaurant in this great Thai city⌠if only you could remember itâs nameâŚ
well the BROWSER HISTORY can remember it for youâŚ
Do I need to go on to convince the Brave masters?
Maybe you can help@Brave-Browser-Fanboy to bump this up ? - Thanks a lot in advance for any support.
All we are asking is for the OPTION to chose longer history if we so wish (of course this should not be MANDATORY for everyone).
Pretty please.
I also think itâs a useful feature to have configurable. For me, itâs a matter of being able to revisit programming knowledge I had been looking up for older projects; stuff that wasnât important enough to bookmark but which came up in conversation years later (âHey, have you ever tried to do X in Y language?â âYes, but I couldnât and I donât remember why. Let me go back and show you what solutions DIDNâT work.â)