On multiple machines, Brave has started adding cookies that I can't delete. I've deleted and purged the installs and re-installed, but a few days later there are cookies for google, microsoft, sometimes wordpress, that can't be deleted. And I couldn't figure out why they were there even with all cookies off.

Brave Community is full of un-addressed threads on this, with no answers that I could find.

They've lost my trust.

Back to FF, and now going to look at Flashpeak-Slimjet - it has tons of security settings, so we'll see how well they work. Anybody know of any bad stuff about this browser?

I'm curious. Why couldn't you delete those cookies? You couldn't even delete the cookie database as root? How does brave store its cookies? It it a SQL database file, a .json file, a text file?

I've never used it. It has a lot of depends
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave-bin/
https://brave.com/

None of the delete functions in Settings would get rid of all the cookies. I never thought of root-deleting the cookie database - but I don't know where it is.
And even with a fresh install, without any previous user info, these cookies started showing up again.
Not worth the effort or the need to keep checking up on it.

I'll admit I never really trusted Brave. Any browser that specifically blocks from installing good blockers (ublock origin/umatrix), includes a "dumbed down" blocker and partners with advertisers to deliver unblockable ads to it's browser just screams "worst security ever" to me.

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^ same here, and it isn't a new complaint either.

If you're interested, maybe start with reading Brave browser's wikipedia page.

Found this today:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain...filiate-codes/

Seems they have become delusional about who's the user and what's the product.
Too much smoke around this browser to believe there's no fire.

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Mmm this does not spell well for that browser. Even if half of it is true..