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Login problem on Medium based blogs

Open jaydson opened this issue 8 years ago • 23 comments

Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one? Yes

Describe the issue you encountered: It seems like Medium is always signing me off on Brave.

Expected behaviour: Login on Medium, keep logged in.

  • Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): Ubuntu 16.10

  • Brave Version: 0.12.7

  • Steps to reproduce:

    1. Navigate to https://thisweekinreact.com (or any other Medium based blog)
    2. Login
    3. Reload the page
  • Screenshot if needed: screenshot from 2016-11-08 22-51-51

  • Any related issues: #5437

jaydson avatar Nov 09 '16 01:11 jaydson

Tried to look into this. Can't reproduce.

antiroyalty avatar Dec 13 '16 17:12 antiroyalty

+1 from Community: https://community.brave.com/t/medium-com-publications-cause-sign-out/2985/3

Steps to reproduce:

  • Allow all cookies for Medium.com
  • Allow all cookies for https://themission.co (this is a publication connected to Medium)
  • Sign into Medium.com, you'll see your profile is active by looking at the top right-hand corner
  • Click on any article on The Mission (Like this one)
  • Click the back button or return to Medium.com
  • You'll now be signed out of Medium

bsclifton avatar May 18 '17 16:05 bsclifton

Yes I can also reproduce.

https://blog.gridplus.io/why-ethereum-needs-stable-coins-b777b55945b5

jamesray1 avatar Jul 25 '17 14:07 jamesray1

I can reproduce this.

Brave: 0.19.88 rev: c29eca63249e3d43584ca1dcc47f3e7a7e904324 Muon: 4.5.15 libchromiumcontent: 62.0.3202.89 V8: 6.2.414.40 Node.js: 7.9.0 Update Channel: Release OS Platform: macOS OS Release: 16.7.0 OS Architecture: x64

alex-miller-0 avatar Nov 17 '17 01:11 alex-miller-0

@alex-miller-0 Does this repro for you if you lower your shields for that domain?

jonathansampson avatar Nov 18 '17 01:11 jonathansampson

Yes, shields are down for medium.com (and all relevant domains for blogs). It appears to have more to do with the tab itself:

  • If I open a new tab and navigate to medium, I am not signed in.
  • If I open a new story in a new tab (i.e. click a link) it signs me out on all tabs.
  • Interestingly, if I navigate inside the existing tab (i.e. click on the M logo to return to medium.com), I remain signed in. If I click on a story, I'm still signed in, but once I click the M logo a second time, I get logged out (logging out always happens simultaneously on all tabs).

alex-miller-0 avatar Nov 18 '17 01:11 alex-miller-0

When I clicked on the Medium logo while signed in I was signed out.

This is with Brave shields down on a custom Medium blog: When trying to add tags, as soon as I type a comma or two spaces, it repeatedly says every few seconds (after removing each popup) or if I try to click the publish button: "Uh oh! Tags can only have letters, numbers, spaces, and dashes, and limited to 5 per post." I can't publish the comment or change to the full-screen editor. I did not experience this on Chrome.

jamesray1 avatar Nov 18 '17 10:11 jamesray1

I'm having a different and weird behaviour here.
I can login on Medium and navigate through different posts.
Steps:

  1. Go to https://medium.com
  2. Login with Twitter
  3. Navigate to a personal Medium account, like https://medium.com/@jaydson/
  4. Navigate through different posts This steps works just fine.

But the odd thing is, in the moment I access a custom domain Medium based blog, like https://thisweekinreact.com, I'm signed out.

Bottom line is, Medium personal profiles seems to work fine. Medium with custom domains keep signing me out.

jaydson avatar Nov 18 '17 15:11 jaydson

Yeah, it's definitely related to custom domains for me as well. Whenever I go to a page on a custom domain, I get logged out on the main site.

Edit: I have shields down as well.

superMDguy avatar Nov 18 '17 20:11 superMDguy

Ah, it is related to custom domains for me too. Note that I can verify my shields are down for the custom domains that I have tested and they still trigger the bug.

alex-miller-0 avatar Nov 18 '17 20:11 alex-miller-0

And it's still happening... No solution found!

Shad-Iqbal avatar Jan 23 '18 19:01 Shad-Iqbal

this is still in deep backlog?

jpita avatar Feb 01 '18 13:02 jpita

Same issue as described above

jgmio avatar Feb 05 '18 14:02 jgmio

@Shad-Iqbal, @jpita, @jgmio -- would one of you be interested in joining me via Skype or Discord to have a closer look at this issue?

jonathansampson avatar Feb 13 '18 03:02 jonathansampson

I ran into this problem as well. I think I worked around it by setting the global default shields Cookie Control to Allow all cookies. The problem is probably because of third party cookies (maybe medium.com tries to pass cookies to the custom domain?).

cndouglas avatar Feb 13 '18 06:02 cndouglas

@jonathansampson sure. jose.pita4 on skype

jpita avatar Feb 13 '18 08:02 jpita

I have this problem since day one with medium on brave.

It makes me login to medium dozens of times a day ( every time I visit a medium based blod, that is not ot the domain "medium.com" )

j1v avatar Feb 18 '18 21:02 j1v

+1 on this - is it partly due to custom domains pointing to Medium publications?

I wonder if Medium uses a tag of some sort that could identify publications even if they're using a custom domain?

It's a pretty frustrating issue, as it essentially keeps you from interacting with Medium articles in any way.

nneuman avatar Apr 16 '18 19:04 nneuman

+1 from https://medium.com/@PaulRBerg/constructive-feedback-for-the-brave-browser-9f08b422a05

Like I said above, as a workaround, please try changing global default shields Cookie Control to Allow all cookies.

cndouglas avatar Jun 18 '18 21:06 cndouglas

But that completely defeats the purpose of the brave browser. -1 for this one

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 23:08 Liunkae [email protected] wrote:

+1 from https://medium.com/@PaulRBerg/constructive-feedback-for-the-brave-browser-9f08b422a05

Like I said above, as a workaround, please try changing global default shields Cookie Control to Allow all cookies.

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jgmio avatar Jun 19 '18 08:06 jgmio

I agree with @jgmio, no reason to use Brave if I have to turn off the security features. I've gone back to Chrome + a variety of privacy extensions.

nneuman avatar Jun 19 '18 13:06 nneuman

@jgmio @nneuman This is just a workaround until the underlying problem is fixed. You can also reset all cookies on browser quit. We'll also have to see if the new version of Brave fixes this problem for good. https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

cndouglas avatar Jun 19 '18 15:06 cndouglas

I'm not able to recreate in the beta

pes10k avatar Oct 01 '18 05:10 pes10k