Youtube creating 38Mb of cookies for every single website automatically - help

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I might suggest checking if you have third-party cookies blocked under:
brave://settings/shields
BLOCK COOKIES: BLOCK THIRD-PART COOKIES
might be the easy solution…
For further cookies managing see below:

Coincidentally, I just shared the post below with someone else, I wrote up how you can take control of your cookies here:

Save settings for search.brave.com

What I have found to work for this issue, is to go to here: brave://settings/content/siteData …& to get there on your own in the future: Brave Settings Privacy & Security Site & Shield Settings (Under Subheader: “Content”) > Additional Content Settings (it’s unfortunately kinda buried in my opinion ) On-device site data Choose “Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all websites” (Sites will probably work as you expect but won’t remember you after you close…

You can also see how others manage their cookies in that recent post I mentioned here, if you’re curious:

Is there a way to "whitelist" cookies instead of deleting all of them?

Microsoft Edge and Firefox both have a great feature where you can clear all browsing data on exit except for a few sites that you keep whitelisted. Right now, I would either need to use an external extension or program to do this in Brave from the looks of it. I’m wondering if I’m missing something, because it seems odd that a browser that claims to be focused on privacy would be missing such a critical feature. I’d like to switch away from Firefox, as more and more websites are starting to no…