So long as such a change is strictly optional, I am in support of it being added, as I find the lack of this capability in Safari’s implementation of Private Browsing a downside.
Although it is by ANY reasonable standards a genuine security ‘hole’, I personally find it quite the convenience in iOS Brave’s private browsing mode.
@Cereal I’m not quite sure I see the issue? Private session is indeed isolated and ephemeral. You are still in that same exact private session as opening a new tab, so it keeps it. Once you exit the private session it purges it all. It never touches your normal browsing.
Are you speaking more of wanting multiple containers where you can have several different private sessions open at a same time? It’s been a while since I touched Safari, but I’m pretty sure it works the same exact way as Brave is handling it. Especially since Apple kind of dictates a lot of it with mandating WebKit
Sorry I wasn’t clear, modern day safari has each individual private browsing tab isolated when you’re browsing in “private mode” and I guess I thought it not behaving the same in Brave was a bug. Perhaps this post would be better labelled as a “feature request”, that’s my bad.
It is something that I think a lot of users would like to see as a toggle-able feature in the Brave IOS app though.
@Cereal interesting. I hadn’t tested in a long time, but I see what you mean. Hitting it creates basically a new private window each time, and the websites I was logged into are logged out. That does work differently than I typically see. They are essentially having every window or tab opened in private set as its own container.
I tested on Firefox, Chrome, Brave, and others, and it doesn’t quite have this. Not sure where the difference would be or how difficult it would be for the team to do. All of those seem to keep the whole private session together.
Let me tag @Mattches to see if he can ask around on it.