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Unexpected differences between global Shields settings, global cookies settings, and local Shields settings

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Description

There are unexpected differences between the global Shields settings, global cookies settings, and local Shields settings. In addition to that, the global Shields settings are set to aggressive/strict when a new user profile is created.

This is more of a UI bug since default aggressive/strict global Shields settings are not applied to global cookies settings and local Shields settings (when it concerns clean user profiles).

Steps to Reproduce

Clean user profile in Brave Nightly.
Open brave://settings/shields.
Open brave://settings/cookies.
Open https://brave.com.
Observe the differences between the opened pages.

Actual result:

Global Shields settings	Global Cookies settings	Local Shields settings

Expected result:

Default global Shields settings shouldn’t be set to aggressive/strict, and there shouldn’t be any difference between the settings displayed on brave://settings/shields and local Shields settings when it comes to a clean user profile.

Reproduces how often:

100%

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.41.33 Chromium: 102.0.5005.78 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision	df6dbb5a9fd82af3f567198af2eb5fb4876ef99c-refs/branch-heads/5005_59@{#3}
OS	Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1741)

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Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? No
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? No
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Yes

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? N/A
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? N/A

Miscellaneous Information:

CC: @rebron @nullhook @stephendonner

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

MadhaviSeelamcommented, Jun 9, 2022

Brave	1.41.47 Chromium: 102.0.5005.78 (Official Build) nightly (64-bit)
Revision	df6dbb5a9fd82af3f567198af2eb5fb4876ef99c-refs/branch-heads/5005_59@{#3}
OS	Windows 11 Version 21H2 (Build 22000.675)

@pes10k I am same issue as @stephendonner did in regards to brave://settings/cookies page in Win 11x64 Global shields settings, per site shield (local) settings and global cookies settings are working as expected. i.e. If any of the settings changed in global defaults page are reflected in the local site shields panel and global cookies settings page.

Install 1.41.47
Launch Brave
Go to brave.com
Local shields settings show are in default mode
open brave://settings/shields and shields settings are NOT in default mode
Set Trackers & ads blocking, Block fingerprinting and Block cookies to Disabled in brave://settings/shields
Verified local shield settings (per site-brave.com) match to the global shield settings
open brave://settings/cookies
Verified Allow all cookies was enabled - Same as global shield settings and local shields settings
Now select Block third-party cookies in brave://settings/cookies
Local site shields panel (brave,com) shows Block cross-site cookies enabled
Global defaults page still shows Disabled for Block cookies
Refreshed the page and the setting displayed 'All`

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/98358127/172737910-49ab852e-b93b-4da3-9375-cd47fb3adcb9.mp4

Note: Global shields default settings are incorrect so that page still needs a fix.

1reaction

Tonevcommented, Jun 11, 2022

local and global shields settings are by design not supposed to match. the former is is the local override for the latter.

I believe they should match when it concerns clean user profiles. When a user creates a user profile, the user profile is supposed to use the default global Shields settings, and without previous Shields settings changes, the local Shields settings should match the global Shields settings.

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