How do I allow my local web page access to LocalStorage in Brave Browser?

By default, Brave is blocking all 3rd party cookies, which is fine, however, I want to work on a local project which uses LocalStorage but I get the following error.

Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.

I don't want to turn 3rd party cookie blocking off, which does circumvent the problem, but I'd rather just whitelist local file access (doesn't allow whitelisting file:// protocol).

Is it even possible to get this working without turning off the global "block all 3rd party cookies" setting?

There is 2 ways you can achieve this. Probably also depends how you run your project. I use VS Code and when I run my projects in Brave I got that error. My files were just in a dev directory not in the wwwroot directory.

1. First option (recommended in my opinion)

   • Go to: Setting->Additional Settings->Privacy and Security->Site Settings->Cookies
   • In the "Allow" section add: "localhost" and "127.0.0.1"

2. Second option (not recommended, as you also stated you don't want to do this)

   • Go to: Settings->Shields->Cookie Control
   • Select "Allow all cookies"

Hope this helps