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If I were to try that with after this clandestine addition, I would not only be directed to searching their site (which would be annoying and confusing), but I also may be being tracked in the process (which I would emphatically not want).

This is disconcerting, since it's not super crazy for me to type something like site.dom coupon code or similar into my nav bar.

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I had to click on the vertical ellipsis to expose the full URL (and capture the attached screenshot). Due to the width of my screen, those six characters were not visible to me in the brave://settings/searchEngines screen. I don't know whether they are a tracking ID or what their purpose is. There are six characters after the ? in the URL which I have redacted. I recently visited Home Depot's website and discovered that visit resulted in this addition to my search engines: UPDATE: I will file a separate issue to track this when I observe it again and can provide more details.įollowing up with some additional investigation. They should only come back if I signal intent to restore the default settings or add them explicitly. This is disturbing, since I've signaled an intent that they should not appear. I haven't done enough testing to figure out what triggers this (i.e., whether it's upgrading Brave, relaunching it, or navigating to certain pages, etc.), but it keeps happening. I should not have to manually and continually poll brave://settings/searchEngines to 'discover' new or reappearing entires only to have to manually remove (and re-remove) them.Īlso originally reported with this issue: Despite_ me deleting them every single time I notice their presence, Bing and Google are re-added to my Default search engines list. Users should be empowered to turn this off, and I would argue it should be off by default.

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As a user, even after reasonable inquiry, I have no idea that this is happening, much less how, or how to stop it.

As far as I can tell, I have no opportunity to consent to this settings manipulation.

Verify the sites DO show up under Other search engines on brave://settings/searchEnginesĪs I browse, additional entries are silently inserted into Other search engines periodically.

Enable the Index other search engines setting.

Verify they DO NOT show up under Other search engines on brave://settings/searchEngines.

Verify that the new Index other search engines preference is showing and is turned OFF by default.