The ' clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave' toggle reverts back to default after closing the window .

[ShockRocky]

Description

The ' clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave' toggle when turned on in chrome://settings/content/cookies, revert back to it's default state[off] when the window is closed.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to chrome://settings/content/cookies
2. Toggle on 'clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave', exit the tab.
3. The toggle is back to its off state, thus not persisting with the user's decision.

Reproduces how often:

Encountered the bug on a fresh install of brave[ Version 0.68.139 Chromium: 77.0.3865.90] on a windows 10 laptop, also persists on a fresh profile .

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave | 0.68.139 Chromium: 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (64-bit)

OS | Windows 10 OS Version 1903 (Build 18362.356)

Version/Channel Information:

Haven't tried to reproduce the issue on other builds of the browser, except the aforementioned one .

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
  Yes .
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
  Haven't tried.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel?
  Haven't tried.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?
  Haven't tried.

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
  No.
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
  No.
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
  I don't use chrome.

[kojid0]

same here. Hope this privacy bug gets fixed soon.
Version 0.68.142 Chromium: 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (64-bit) // Windows 10 OS Version 1809 (Build 17763.737)

[bsclifton]

cc: @mkarolin did this regress with Chromium 77?

[Brave-Matt]

Chiming in here with a few notes -- Recently helped several users in these threads:
https://community.brave.com/t/clear-cookies-and-site-data-when-you-quit-brave-deactivates-itself/85751/20
https://community.brave.com/t/clear-cookies-and-site-data-when-you-quit-brave-deactivates-itself-2/87394

A bit of clarity surrounding this behavior:

• As the title of this issue suggests, the Clear cookies and site data when you quit Brave toggle resets itself after Brave is relaunched.
  

• When/if that toggle works, users are able to add site exceptions (brave://settings/content --> Allow) such that they are not cleared after quitting the browser.

• If users instead use the [On exit] window (brave://settings/clearBrowserData --> [On exit]), data is cleared on exit and the data checked to be cleared is not reset. However, this function clears all browsing data, regardless of whether or not there are exceptions added.
  

Suggestion:
I don't see any reason we need to have both of these options. Seems to lead to a lot of confusion and produces "mixed" results because of it. Instead, we should remove the toggle in brave://settings/content and rework the [On exit] option so that it doesn't clear or alter manually added (or blocked) site exceptions.

cc @rebron @bsclifton

[LaurenWags]

QA/Blocked until we get a new build. Will be available in 0.71.107` and above.

[LaurenWags]

Removing QA/Blocked label as build 0.71.107 is available.

[GeetaSarvadnya]

Verification passed on

Brave	0.71.108 Chromium: 78.0.3904.87 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision	20c21f4010010f32462ea8e1d6af30cef66d48c8-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#840}
OS	Windows 10 OS Version 1803 (Build 17134.1006)

• The original issue is reproduced in both 0.68.142 and 0.70.122
• Verified the STR from the description, verified on both clean and upgraded profile
• Verified that the cookies are cleared when turn ON the clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave option under chrome://settings/content/cookies and quit the browser
• Verified that the state of clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave option is ON after the browser restart
• Verified the clear Cookies and other site data on exit works as expected

Verification passed on

Brave	0.71.111 Chromium: 78.0.3904.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	20c21f4010010f32462ea8e1d6af30cef66d48c8-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#840}
OS	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• Verified the STR from the description, verified on both clean and upgraded profile
• Verified that the cookies are cleared when turn ON the clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave option under chrome://settings/content/cookies and quit the browser
• Verified that the state of clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave option is ON after the browser restart

Verification passed with

Brave	0.71.111 Chromium: 78.0.3904.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	20c21f4010010f32462ea8e1d6af30cef66d48c8-refs/branch-heads/3904@{#840}
OS	macOS Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G5019)

• Verified the STR from the description
• Verified that the cookies are cleared when turn ON the clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave option under chrome://settings/content/cookies and quit the browser
• Verified that the state of clear all cookies and site data when you quit brave option is ON after the browser restart
• Verified the clear Cookies and other site data on exit works as expected
• Verified you are able to toggle this option OFF and cookies are not cleared on exit.