Brave-browser: "Always use Private Browsing" setting

[SergeyZhukovsky]

[eljuno]

+1 from community https://community.brave.com/t/default-incognito-mode/5639?u=eljuno

[LaurenWags]

+1 from google play

[schamarthy]

+1

[Coldfirex]

+1

[cezaraugusto]

+1 from me

[phonphen]

+1 from me too

[yardenac]

+1 please

[LaurenWags]

+1s from google play store

[tonikumpula]

+1.

[M86xKC]

There is already a patch in bromite maybe you can review it and include it in the next rc.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/patches/BRM072_Add-an-always-incognito-mode.patch

@SergeyZhukovsky

[miladmaz12]

@SergeyZhukovsky @samartnik @srirambv Any updates to this? The pull request brave/browser-android-tabs#328 isn't been updated

[Miyayes]

+1 from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/eidmyi/ios_has_private_browsing_only_mode_but_android/ cc: @anthonypkeane

[jonathansampson]

Identical to #7487?

[bsclifton]

@jonathansampson this looks to be different; basically this would be private mode all the time... the one linked clears all the history, etc on exit... which is a work-around to accomplish that

[jonathansampson]

@bsclifton Private Mode clears all history, etc. on exit. Right? I assumed these were functionally identical 🙂

[bsclifton]

@jonathansampson there are fundamental differences in how incognito mode works (IsOffTheRecord) compared to a regular profile

The goal for this issue is achievable through Group Policy. There is a value IncognitoModeAvailability. This issue could be solved by setting the value to 2.

Picture from the docs

[CalebRotello]

Is this still wanted? If so, I would like to take it on.

[bsclifton]

@CalebRotello basically, it should already be done (since it's available via group policy; so this is already implemented on Desktop, just needs testing on Android). I'm not sure why this was tagged with great first issue as it would probably be one of the harder ones to do (if you were not using group policy). I'll remove that label as it may have been an accident

@CalebRotello were you wanted to get started with some Android dev tasks?

[CalebRotello]

@bsclifton I am actually wanting to get started with Desktop dev, I just misunderstood Group Policy

[Pavbc]

I would actually prefer #7487 solved over the always incognito. I mean, delete history and data when the user press the exit button rather than every time the app relaunches. The option to press "exit" wold give the option to easily clear data and still have some form of continuity between browsing sessions. When it's done, press exit, clear data.

[hugbubby]

This seems to me like a pretty critical feature for a privacy browser.

[unab0mb]

@jonathansampson there are fundamental differences in how incognito mode works (IsOffTheRecord) compared to a regular profile

The goal for this issue is achievable through Group Policy. There is a value IncognitoModeAvailability. This issue could be solved by setting the value to 2.

Picture from the docs

To clarify this, for anyone trying add/set this setting, it does not work unless you add the key in the registry at SOFTWARE\Policies\BraveSoftware\Brave. It does not work under Google\Chrome.

I was excited for this, then was met with disappointment because unfortunately this makes ALL Brave Browser windows forced to Private without any way to open a normal window. Why does this matter? Because you can't view the Settings window, About, etc. which for some reason Brave requires being in a normal window. So, that makes this setting totally useless for most people.

My workaround was to add the --incognito switch to my Brave icon, but that also isn't sufficient because I must use that icon all the time. If I have an external link that I click on, or a .url file I open, Brave opens in a standard non-private window. I just want it to always open in a private window when launched by default with the option to still be able to click in the menu UI to open a standard window (for Settings, etc.). This is quite frustrating. Firefox has a simple setting to allow for this. I don't understand why after all this time that this is still not in Brave, supposedly a privacy-based browser.

Please implement this a proper way similar to how Firefox implements it (or, you know, create Brave using Firefox as the base as should have been done from the beginning).

[srirambv]

+1 from @tigerbit85 via #10244

[omerlevi77]

Yy

[aaronsantamaria]

+1
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/jvxl00/always_private_browsing_on_android/