Ah, I see. I think I discovered the disconnect. And looking through I notice what the difference was. Honestly, I think it’s bad design for UX when there’s a lot of options scattered in different menus. Ideally should be together and have a clear differentiator.
It seems what people shared in the past were things like below:
Then looking at that Github, the differentiator was that the option to clear cookies when closing windows is what people were having to use.
Where it worked was people doing things like below:
@vincent2394 if you want to test it, this should actually still work the same way. So what they discovered and said over the years was to turn the toggle to delete when closing the browser. This had been under cookies, but was renamed as I mentioned earlier to be brave://settings/content/siteData.
So if you change that to Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all windows then it will clear all cookies. And if you add anything on the Allowed to save data on your device would be the whitelist.
Then you just would have to make sure the On Exit part of clear data like you’re using doesn’t have the Cookies and site data option, as that will clear and ignore any exemptions.
So it’s two different ways to accomplish the same task, except one lets you whitelist websites whereas the other doesn’t.