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Feature Request: Open external links in incognito/private mode #18788

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zamoranos opened this issue Oct 15, 2021 · 10 comments
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Feature Request: Open external links in incognito/private mode #18788

zamoranos opened this issue Oct 15, 2021 · 10 comments
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feature/private-browsing feature-request OS/Android Fixes related to Android browser functionality priority/P5 Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon.

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@zamoranos
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Description

Add the option to force the opening of all external links in incognito mode. This is different from issue #7564 since I also want to use this browser in normal mode and only affect external links to use private mode.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Go to chrome://flags
  2. Enable both #cct-incognito & #cct-incognito-available-to-third-party
  3. Open an app and click a link that the Brave browser will open

Actual result

Opening links from other apps still shows in history

Expected result

External links doesn't show up in history when this option is enabled

Additional information

Bromite has already solved this: bromite/bromite#1442
Hope it can be added here too

@zamoranos zamoranos added the OS/Android Fixes related to Android browser functionality label Oct 15, 2021
@blogmangit
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if this is enabled then open links in external apps will not work in that case. Are you OK with this ? if yes give bromite a try or else use Firefox nightly android.

@kjozwiak
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Removing the closed/by-author label and adding it into the Android project board so the above can be triaged/considered by the product team. CCing @timchilds @anthonypkeane.

@deeppandya deeppandya added priority/P4 Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". priority/P5 Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon. and removed priority/P4 Planned work. We expect to get to it "soon". labels May 17, 2023
@aldopareja
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+1

@MaryckBuilds
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Bump. It's pretty much available in all other browsers

@PebbleThrower
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+1
Shifting to Brave on android here from Bromite and this feature would be one of the last steps for me. It's easy to click a link by mistake and it opens in regular browser and suddenly quite a few trackers and cookies are saved. By opening external links in incognito the trackers and cookies and removed as soon as incognito is closed. I know there is an option to clear all cookies on browser exit but that would also log the user out of their most frequently used websites.

@PebbleThrower
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Bumping this one again, hoping this feature gets implemented.

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feature/private-browsing feature-request OS/Android Fixes related to Android browser functionality priority/P5 Not scheduled. Don't anticipate work on this any time soon.
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