Browser keeps signing out!


Description of the issue:

  1. Browser keeps signing me out when I close the site.

I have unchecked ‘delete cookies and other site data’ as well as ‘delete cached images and files’ under On exit, but do I also need to disable ‘ delete cached images and files’ under Basic and Advanced?
2) Are any of the following extensions known to cause this? read aloud, tweaks for youtube, bitwarden, proton VPN?

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Settings/Shields/Forget me when I close this site > UNCHECKED

  2. Settings/Privacy and Security/Deleting browsing data/cookies and other site data >UNCHECK

Expected result: All sign ins kept signed in!

Brave Version( check About Brave): Brave 1.85.118 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chromium: 143.0.7499.169

Additional Information:

@doritos

I would flush some things and “bang on some switches” . . .

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to the Advanced tab at brave://settings/clearBrowserData ← There, ENABLE (repeat: ENABLE) the following:

  • Browsing History
  • Cookies and other site data
  • Cached images and files
  • Autofill form data

Click the Delete data button.

Next, in a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://settings/content/siteData ← There, select Don't allow sites to save data on your device (not recommended)

AND, while there, scroll down to Sites listed below follow a custom setting instead of the default and just under that, where it says Allowed to save data on your device, add exactly as written here: [*.]brave.com

Exit / Quit Brave Browser. Quit everything else and Restart the computer.

When Brave Browser is running again, in a Brave Browser New Window, go to brave://settings/content/siteData ← There, select Allow sites to save data on your device

Exit / Quit Brave Browser. Quit everything else and Restart the computer.

Now, in order to improve the chances of remaining signed on at a website, you must use ONLY the Brave Browser New Window ← NEVER a Brave Browser New Private Window, and NEVER a Brave Browser New Private Window with Tor.

In addition, websites can, and will, end your signed-on session; for example, banks can and will. There is no “written in stone” signed-on status for some websites.

Note: Some extensions might purposely, or inadvertently / unintentionally, do something that leads to fouled up cookie, cache . . . and then suddenly, you find that you are signed-out somewhere. (Your testing individual extensions, might reveal what you have wondered about.)

You might, as a precaution, in a Brave Browser New Window , revisit the tabs at brave://settings/clearBrowserData ← There, disable switches as you wish.

Overall, maintain routine backups of bookmarks and passwords.

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Wow thank you so much! I followed your instructions to a T and it worked!!

Just to make sure, do I disable all following four under advanced tab in the end?

  • Browsing History

  • Cookies and other site data

  • Cached images and files

  • Autofill form data

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@doritos

Glad to hear you fixed it. Re disabling those checkboxes: “As a precaution,” sure.

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Will do!

Again, thank you so much for being so helpful.

I don’t know how to boost your reply for visibility, but it should be pinned! I saw so many people running into same problem for months on end to no avail… I really hope everyone sees your solution.

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