I’m trying to back up and save everything to switch to a new phone. Then came across this under my settings for brave browser. I attached supposed screenshots.
Don’t know if you’ll be able to access them or not and the description below.
This is how I got there.
Settings, site settings, on device site data, I attached a screenshot of the exact wordage. If I’m on this page and I go to help and the top right corner, it sends me to Google Chrome. Why? I don’t have Google Chrome I shouldn’t be using it and I have it shut off.
I would think that it would send me to brave help or duck duck go to help me. Why is it sending me to Google Chrome. When I went under this setting it showed that.
www ptachemtoa.com
Was allowed to control the setting on my phone. I know way shape or form out of this person to do that.
I went to this website and it gave me a big red screen that said do not enter for it was very dangerous. Why is it there? I am so tired of people getting in my information. It’s really starting to irritate me. I don’t know if anybody has any idea what I’m talking about I just know it doesn’t feel right something’s wrong. If anybody has any opinions or can offer suggestions or what this is all about please let me know I’d really appreciate it.
@Lizzie1228 I’m just quickly responding from my phone as I’m getting ready for bed so I can’t give you a really good in-depth answer. The short version was what you’re seeing is what we used to always call cookies. It now tend to be called on device site data.
This data or cookies is what saves your preferences for that particular website when you visit. So like if you logged in to an account on there at how it recognizes that you were logged in. If you choose that you want the website to be in night mode it’s how it remembers that. Any little setting or change that you make when visiting a site is saved as a cookie or on device site data.
Many websites will also have the cookie notice that comes up and will make you either accept or reject the use of cookies. The irony is in that even when you rejected it tends to have to save a cookie onto your device in order to recognize it that was your choice.
For something to show up as allowed on there then it means you typically would’ve had a hit Accept on something like a cookie notice when you went to a website.
NOTE
This can get complicated in a lot of ways because you have the difference between first party cookies and third-party cookies. It also matters based on what Shields settings you’re using, what extensions are installed, etc. Maintain is just keeping in mind that I’m trying to give you just a very quick generic concept here
Oh and this varies. Keep in mind that Brave is built on chromium. This is the same engine that Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, And a lot of other web browsers use. There are a lot of similarities since they use the same core. The particular setting is just something that is made upstream in chromium and is used in Brave as well as the other browsers.
Brave does strip away a lot of things to make sure that none of your information goes to Google and nothing is tracking your usage or anything. And often they will replace any mention of chrome tens that say Brave. But sometimes they have little settings for the chromium specific thing that they’ll leave Links to so you can see what it is just based on chrome/chromium.
But in that same token there will be times that you go to open something and it would ask you if you would like to continue in chrome, just because it’s recognizing you’re using a chromium browser. If you say continuing chrome it actually would still continue in Brave.
I am guessing that’s a scenario of what you saw. I don’t have an active android to go check. I now use iPhone and I have my desktop device. But just very quick responses to you. All of this response was quickly done by speech to text so I apologize if there’s any typos or anything that I didn’t notice. At least wanted to say something and now I’m heading out for the night
