Safety Check is warning about Passwords even though we disable that feature #39212
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Description
As reported in #12859 (comment), there is a very unhelpful message from Safety Check in brave://settings/privacy
:
since the password block is hidden in brave://settings/safetyCheck
.
I have confirmed that no network requests are triggered by this, so it may be a local check for bad passwords, I'm not sure.
Steps to reproduce
- Use a new browser profile.
- Go to
brave://settings/privacy
and scroll down to Safety Check. - Confirm that it's not reporting anything.
- Go to
brave://password-manager/passwords
. - Add a fake password for
facebook.com
: username =foo
and password =bar
(note: it appears to require a bad password to trigger). - Go back to
brave://settings/privacy
and scroll down to Safety Check.
Actual result
Brave found some safety recommendations for your review
Passwords
Expected result
Brave regularly checks to make sure your browser has the safest settings. We'll let you know if anything needs your review.
Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
Brave version (brave://version info)
Brave 1.68.92 Chromium: 126.0.6478.71 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Revision 393b9968e233540a48f04d74bc4601a05d3a0169
OS Linux
Channel information
- release (stable)
- beta
- nightly
Reproducibility
- with Brave Shields disabled
- with Brave Rewards disabled
- in the latest version of Chrome
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