Sadly this here is still a problem. This worked for a while now it seems not to work anymore.
Why do we not have a good possibility to save the settings from search.brave.com it does not make any sense to me why this is not implemented from the beginning and less why not now…?
We need to fiddle around with save cookies for this website, but be careful if you set to delete the cookies on exit. It gets also deleted, but not if you set option x or y and so on and so forth….
Anyway, what is the new updated way to save cookies only for search.brave.com but with the option to delete it for everything else?
Description of the issue:
There is no (obvious) option to save cookies for one specific website or save settings for search.brave.com.
Brave Version (check About Brave):
Version 1.71.114 Chromium: 130.0.6723.58 (Official Build) (64-bit) (Linux version)
Operating System:
Windows 10 and above but also for Linux (Fedora Linux 40 in my case)
So you want to save cookies and site data for search.brave.com and not save any other data for any other website, correct?
Launch Brave and go to Settings --> Shields
Toggle the Forget me when I close this site option “on”. Shields will now delete any cookie/site data for websites when you close them.
Visit search.brave.com and click the Shields icon in the address bar and toggle Forget me when I close this site “off”. Recall that changing settings in the Shields panel in the address bar is site specific — so you will only be changing this for search.brave.com
Now, every site you visit will delete site/cookie data when it’s closed except for search.brave.com. If you want to include other sites, visit them and toggle that same option off in the Shields panel in the address bar.
At first, thank you for your fast and detailed message! Really appreciate this!
With this setting set, do I need also to deactivate the functionality to delete all Data on exit?
When yes, what happens to my cache does this then cluttering up my disk space in the meantime or does this also gets deleted with your recommended settings?
What I have found to work for this issue, is to go to here:
brave://settings/content/siteData
…& to get there on your own in the future:
Brave Settings
Privacy & Security
Site & Shield Settings
(Under Subheader: “Content”) > Additional Content Settings (it’s unfortunately kinda buried in my opinion )
On-device site data
Choose “Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all websites” (Sites will probably work as you expect but won’t remember you after you close all brave windows)
Then you can add sites to any of the below as you wish:
“Allowed to save data on your device”
“Always delete site data from your device when you close Brave”
“Not allowed to save data on your device”
Though a more user friendly way to do it is to go to:
Here (the switch button to the left of the address bar > “Cookies and site data”):
Then choose as you wish, whether it’s to
“Allow to save data” OR
“Don’t allow to save data” OR
“Delete when you close all windows”
(In the screenshot below I’ve obviously chosen to “Allow to save data” on this website.
to NOT delete “Cookies and other site data” so I have that UNchecked within the “On Exit” subheading saved (as well as “Sites and Shield Settings” UNchecked but that’s about it).
This is an example of being able to do a similar thing a multiple different ways.
Hope that helps (and BTW this is as much as reminder for me as it is for anyone else, sometimes I need to setup a new browser and forget how to get to my original good settings like this )
@LxWulf if you have it set to delete on exit, such as in the screenshot below (though I have everything unchecked), then that overrides any other settings you have. In other words, there is no whitelist or anything. So it’s generally not good to use.
Does Brave Shields also delete the cache files if set generally to Forget me when I close this site in the Settings under brave://settings/shields as @Mattches recommended doing so?
Because I do not wanna that my browser fill up my space, not that I’m limited (4 TB) but as principle. But I would make an exception for Brave Search because there is no possibility to save the settings via URL which I think would be the better option.
But if this here works, I would take this…workaround.
Hi @Mattches I have seen cookies sticking around after closing a tab with also double checking that Forget me when I close this tab is selected for a particular site (as it is by default), and with no other tabs of that particular site are open… AND not editing the site data to Allow to save data NOT being marked, but being left with the default of Delete data when you close all windows … so I’m a bit confused why the cookies are sticking around…
is the Delete data when you close all windows overpowering the Forget me when I close this tab ?
I mean I double check after I close the website and cookies are still there for it in brave://settings/content/all …which I just then manually delete… but shouldn’t it be deleting them automatically for me/us? …
EDIT: …when I close the TAB (for the particular site) and NOT the WHOLE BROWSER?
@User.1.000.000.000,
There appears to be a ~30s delay before the data is cleared out. Not entirely. sure why — perhaps in the event that you close the site on accident or close it then realize you need to do one more thing so you re-open it quickly and you don’t have to log back in or whatever.
Thanks @Mattches , sorry for not being patient enough I guess haha… it looks like for me it was more about 1 minute, rather than (about) 30 seconds, but fair enough, I mention that for others reading, not as a complaint, just happy to see it does what it and you say it should do so Thanks for that
Sadly it does not work, also it seems it’s not that solution which I seek.
Let me explain:
What I want to have is that I can set some settings on search.brave.com which then get saved, also when I close the browser. This does not work on my side.
I removed the checkboxes in the setting On exit in brave://settings/clearBrowserData as the following:
Of course, it could be that I missed some settings, but if not then this is not the solution I seek for because it does not delete the data from other sites and also not the browser history. This is unacceptable for me.
Again, as already said, I think set settings via URL would be the perfect solution I think instead of relaying on browser and cookie settings.
For any further Information which I may miss, just ask, I will try to deliver them.
@LxWulf Based on the Shields settings you shared, you have Forget me when I close this site enabled. When you go to Brave Search, have you disabled it in the site specific Shields settings? What I’m referencing is the menu that opens when you click . If it is not toggled off for Brave Search, then it would go by the default which you have set to clear your cookies and all when you exit.
Guessing it’s as I said just above. Check the site specific settings. Could it be the ones that aren’t being cleared are ones where you have it toggled off?
Yeah, browser history isn’t tied into Forget me when I close this site if I remember correctly. You would need to manually clear it or have the On Exit portion for browser history selected.
@LxWulf apologies for not answering your question more clearly. @Saoiray is correct here — if you’d like to add an exception for search.brave.com when using the Forget me when I close this site option, please disable it in Shields for that site.
I really don’t get those settings. I meant the Forget me when I close this site in the general settings of brave is for all sites, and I set them on the “whitelist” individual via the Brave Shield in the URL bar.
However, it does not work anyway…
What I did:
Set the Forget me when I close this site in brave://settings/shields:
Disabled every check in Deleting on exit setting
Disabled the Forget me when I close this site on search.brave.com via Brave Shield on the website. (On the right side of the URL bar)
Set the settings for search.brave.com
Closed window
Opened Brave Browser
Settings of search.brave.com have been reset.
Any ideas what I missed, or is this a bug? I’m really confused.
Note:
I really don’t get why this must be that compilcated to setup if there would be a much easier method to do this: Save settings in via URL.
As I already said, this method in the current situation has some flaws as well. It’s not really clear how the settings are connected together, like the Forget me when I close this site in both Brave Shield setting (URL Bar) and in the general settings under Shields.
Also the History does not get deleted automatically in this recommended way and must be handed manually which is not an option, at least not for me.
I mean its a browser with privacy in mind so I think it is not really special if I wanna have deleted any browsing data in general, right?
. . . and then scroll to the top of that webpage and click on the “[Lion]brave” icon:
. . . thereby going to the Brave Search webpage.
Brave Search Engine Operators (“SEO”):
In my experience, the plus and particularly the minus symbols usage have NOT been reliable:
+:
Returns web pages containing the specified term either in the title
or the body of the page.
Example: to find information about FreeSync GPU technology, making sure
the keyword “FreeSync” appears in the result, type “gpu +freesync”.
-:
Returns web pages not containing the specified term neither in the title
nor the body of the page.
Example: to search web pages containing the keyword “office” while avoiding
results with the term “Microsoft”, type “office -microsoft”.
Also, @LxWulf it will feel slow and boring, but I recorded as I was playing with things a bit. Kind of goes to show type of thing I might do when trying to replicate things. Of course, in doing so I ended up with questions like why google.com showed up in my cookies` and why in the world it wants to default with local results instead of the region I chose, but those in testing I see those are separate issues.
In each time I closed and revisited, it maintained my settings changes of having Answer with AI turned off, Italy as chosen region, and Safe Search turned off. Essentially seemed to maintain all of the settings we changed and never reverted back.
But also other thing I point out in the video and learned is it seems to be cumulative on sites. So if I disable Forget me when I close this site on Brave Search then it also disables it for Brave Community and anything else with brave.com. I do think that this should also be changed.
Anyway, above is text summary of what I found. But if you’re curious to see me stumble around testing it, along with some weird pauses, you can check out the video below just to kind of be able to see things in action. And if you’re doing anything different can give feedback so I can better replicate.
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(and BTW this is as much as reminder for me as it is for anyone else, sometimes I need to setup a new browser and forget how to get to my original good settings like this 
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. If it is not toggled off for Brave Search, then it would go by the default which you have set to clear your cookies and all when you exit.
