When shields are down I see that Facebook and Twitter cookies are tracking me to every website I visit. Also a bunch of other cookies I don’t recognize such as adsrvr.org, bat.bing.com, and so on. Should I just block all the cookies I don’t recognize? Using the icon left of the URL? Sometimes there are 80 or over 100 cookies when you visit a website with the shields down. How do I know when they are important?
This issue be reproduced/seen by the icon to the left of the URL under cookies.
Websites which are verified with Brave, immediately after they complete to download; at the top right corner of them, you shall see a blue dot circle within it, it has a white good mark,
That’s because Brave Shields’ cookies settings affect Brave’s cookies settings. You can easily check that doing the following:
Type brave://settings/shields in the address bar.
Change Cookie blocking to All or Disabled.
After you have set Cookie blocking to All or Disabled do the following:
Type brave://settings/cookies in the address bar.
Check how Brave’s cookies settings will be either Allow all cookies or Block all cookies (not recommended).
Long story short: when you disable Brave Shields, you tell websites that they are allowed to send you all of their cookies, along with all third-party cookies.
I made Brave developers aware of this behavior in the Github report below, but can’t tell you whether anything will change anytime soon.