Brave has just started forgetting my all login autofills and passwords

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Auto logins and passwords now being forgotten. No problem until about a week ago.

  2. Retyping Logins and resaving, forgotten on restart..

  3. Settings to Save and auto login activated correctly

Expected result:

Brave Version( check About Brave):1.83.112

Additional Information: This aspect of Brave has been working correctly until about a week ago.

Is it just your passwords but everything else is fine? Did it only happen once or it keeps happening?

If you don’t have option to clear the data on exit, then maybe you had the issue of corrupted keyring during an update.

Recommended reading, study for Windows OS users - re:

  • DPAPI (“Data Protection API”)
  • passwords disappeared, erased, loss, lost, storage, stored

https://community.brave.app/search?q=dpapi%20%40Saoiray

Update deleted everything: profile, bookmarks, extensions, settings - #31 by clifton

NOTICE: Unexplained Data Loss Issue

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/442923/windows-equivalent-of-os-x-keychain

Credential locker for Windows apps (geek stuff)

And more, very detailed geek stuff:

DPAPI Secrets. Security analysis and data recovery in DPAPI (Part 1)

PS - I DO NOT recommend the [Russian?] Passcape Software for password recovery - because I am wary of using any “password recovery software” that might send info back to the software company/foundry.

I do recommend using at least 2 different methods for storing username-and-password combinations, in order to NOT lose them. I NEVER rely upon a single Internet application - such as a browser - for storing passwords.

Hey, I think my browser just updated to your same version (1.83.112) and I also had to login again into all websites. The history is still there, so I think that Brave cleared all cookies and/or website data.

Not sure about missing passwords, since I use an external password manager, but I’ve never had this problem before and the browser isn’t set to clear all data on exit.