Is the Setting to Delete Browsing data working?

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Dear Brave Support Team,

Description of the issue:

I have Brave Browser set (and I double-checked this) to delete browsing history, cookies, cache, etc when I shut it down. But after shutdown: 1) Ccleaner reports a number of files to delete in the C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\ directories and similar – files with today’s date.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

    1. Open Brave Browser, go to Settings > Privacy And security > Delete browsing data > on exit

  2. Check all the types of files to delete and click Save.

  3. Shutdown Brave browser.

  4. Start Ccleaner and go to Custom Clean > Junk. For Brave Browser 77MB (824 files) are listed as needing to be deleted.

  5. In File Explorer, navigate to the Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache directory and display contents to see many, many files with today’s date.

Device information:

  • Windows Home 11 release 24H2

  • Brave Browser version: Version 1.83.118 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Expected result:

No files in the cache folder with data created today.

Actual result:

Many, many files with current date in the subdirectories under Cache.

Do I misunderstand something? If so, how do I check that everything appropriate was in fact deleted?

Thank you for your support!

Best regards,

“Zero”

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Could it be from an older profile? Therefore whatever you do in Brave is irrelevant and not removing what you want?

Are there any settings trying to override it?

I personally don’t use that function, I turn on “Forget me when I close this site” under brave://settings/shields as a master switch for all websites.

As well as under brave://settings/content/siteData (to get there, Privacy & Security > Site and Shield Settings > Additional Content Settings > On-device Site Data) & switch from Allow sites to save data on your device to Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all windows plus any sites that I don’t mind cookies sticking around on, I go to Site Settings (the switch icon in the URL bar next to the bookmarks icon) Cookies and site data > Manage on-device site data then choose with the hamburger menu the appropriate option.

You could also check what else is going on by going to brave://settings/content/all (Privacy & Security > Site and Shield Settings > View permissions and data stored across sites) and/or brave://settings/content/braveShields (Privacy & Security > Site and Shield Settings > Shields Status)

Anyway Welcome to the Community, hope this helps & FYI, I’m just a user too :wink: