pilgrim-brave
commented
1 year ago STR:
- In Settings > Privacy & Security, ensure "Go Off-The-Record when visiting sensitive sites" is set to "Ask" (this is the default setting)
- Navigate to brave://prefs-internals, use in-page Find to verify that "tallpoppy.com" does not appear anywhere
- open new tab, navigate to https://www.tallpoppy.com/
- verify that OTR interstitial appears
- switch back to brave://prefs-internals tab, refresh page (important! page does not auto-refresh), use in-page Find to verify that "tallpoppy.com" does not appear anywhere
- switch back to OTR interstitial tab, click "Proceed Off-The-Record" and wait for page to fully load
- close tallpoppy.com tab (important! PR also patches on-close behavior)
- switch back to brave://prefs-internals tab, refresh page, use in-page Find to verify that "tallpoppy.com" does not appear anywhere
Reported by @iefremov. OTR tabs may (depending on their content) persist site engagement and media engagement scores on disk, which is undesirable. Viewable in brave://prefs-internals/