[Problem] Youtube Cookie gets deleted each week/Also other sites

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i still have this problem, seems like some sites also get cookies deleted

i dont now if cookies have SlidingExpiration

It seems like the cookie is only created once in Youtube, when you sign in or something and then brave deletes it after 7 days. then the cookie is not created again, because Youtube thinks why create a new one, when it runs infinitely

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Thanks @Saoiray, looking into this.

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Figured I’d pop back in here as I now do have a simple javascript one could use for Tampermonkey as workaround to the issue. I hope it’s short and simple enough to not warrant mistrust.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Youtube Force Theater Mode
// @version      0.1
// @description  Refresh youtube theater mode cookie for 7 days
// @match        https://www.youtube.com/watch?*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=youtube.com
// ==/UserScript==

function setCookie(name, value, days) {
    var exdate = new Date();
    exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+days);
    document.cookie = name + "=" + escape(value) + ((days==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toUTCString());
}

setCookie("wide", 1, 7);

This worked for me after a refresh or two, once to set the cookie, twice to have the cookie be used. This should reset the cookie expiration to 7 days literally every single time you open a youtube vid.
If you want to use this for a different website, just adjust the @match line in the top part, and the values as the cookie requires in the bottom setCookie line.
Though I sooner hope this problem will simply get solved.

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We have a fix for this: https://github.com/brave/adblock-resources/pull/118

The issue is that YouTube sets a session cookie for wide mode. This session cookie should be cleared after a browser restart. However, Chrome doesn’t do this by default, which we think is a privacy issue and we fixed earlier this year.

However, this leads to inconsistency for cases like these between other browsers and Brave. We’ve introduced a fix for YouTube, that persists the wide session cookie in localStorage instead.

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Nice, so its in the next Brave Update?

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It should be going out over the weekend via a component update.

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ok, do i need to manually add the cookie for once or when does the update come?`
it still dont work, sadly* :smiley:

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You shouldn’t need to do anything. Can you try the following steps:

  1. Go to youtube.com and click on a random video.
  2. Go into theater mode.
  3. Close and restart Brave and go back to youtube.com
  4. Check if you are still in theater mode.

If you aren’t, that’s a problem. Please give the version number of your Brave Ad Block Updater component - you can find that in brave://components. Mine is 1.0.372 and it works there.

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Also please make sure you’ve removed the wide cookie that you manually added for youtube.com, because that might interfere with the fix here.

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i did, also it gets removed everytime i close brave:

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Brave Ad Block Updater - Version: 1.0.373

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Ah, it looks like your Brave Shields are turned down for youtube.com. This would prevent the fix from being inserted. Can you retry the same steps with Brave Shields turned on?

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oh, yes, it is working, but a small problem

when i start browser, it loads the tab and its not theater mode, if i press f5 it is theatermode and stays in it

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That should go away after the first load. Would you mind taking a video again? That really helped debugging last time :slight_smile:

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after restart => no theater
f5 => theater

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Can you try again? The fix required some fixing :slight_smile:

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tested today, works great! :open_mouth:

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Great! Thanks all for the help here, super useful

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