This is an evolution of Forgetful Browsing. It only clear explicit data like cookies and stored data, but also implicit data like network cache. For now only available on iOS.
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Interesting that this would come to iOS first, I wonder if that indicates Brave is leveraging some Webkit or Safari feature to accomplish this.
How’s this compare to “Forget me when I close this site” setting on other platforms (Android, Linux, Windows)?
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From the article:
What data does Shred delete?
Shredding deletes both data explicitly stored by the site (e.g. cookies and local storage) and implicit data (e.g. network-related caches). To make sure Shred clears as much data as possible, Shred will also clear local data stored using so-called private WebKit APIs.
I would still be very surprised if the same thing can’t be achieved on other platforms given WebKit’s reputation for being fairly limited.
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It appears to be an incremental extension of that feature.
I don’t know what the practical relevance or significance of deleting “implicit data (e.g. network-related caches)” or which threat models this would be relevant to.
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They say in the article they can’t do everything they want on Safari, so yes.