For several months, I have noticed a rather strange behavior of Brave Browser. Whenever I use it to write articles on WordPress sites, it is logging me out on start or shortly thereafter.
This happens very frequently to the point that it is quite annoying. The following guide may help you resolve the issue. It fixes the issue on my end.
The basics: checking settings
Brave supports several features that may interfere with accounts you are signed in.
Here is what you want to check first:
- Click on the Shield icon, expand Advanced Controls, and check that “Forget me when I close that site” is not checked.
- In the same menu, check that “Block all cookies” is not selected.
- Load brave://settings/clearBrowserData and verify that “cookies and other site data” is not cleared on exit.
If these options are set correctly, which they were on my end, then you may proceed to the next section.
Finding the actual culprit
Making a change to the following option resolved the issue on my end. There is a bonus tip at the end, if making the change does not work for you.
- Open the Privacy and Security settings page by loading this URL in the address bar: brave://settings/security
- Check whether “Use secure DNS is activated”.
- If it is, disable the feature.
Use Brave as you would normally. If you do not encounter the issue anymore after several days of usage, you have likely fixed it.
I do not know if the problem is caused by specific Secure DNS providers, or if it does not matter which provider you select. Disabling Secure DNS in Brave fixed the issue on my end.
Bonus tip: you may also want to consider disabling Brave’s fingerprinting protection on affected sites, just to see if it resolves the issue. I read user reports on the Internet that claimed that disabling it helped them.
What about you? Have you run into similar problems in the past?