No idea why this is happening :/ adding tommycli and the SiteSettings component to see if anyone has seen this type of behavior before.

Last time there was a UI regression here I (essentially) banged my head on privacy_page.html until things worked.

Also, adding that the value does not show as updated on going through the back arrow but when I open another tab with the Ads setting , it shows the value updated to 'allowed'.

Removing from owner as I'm not actively looking at it.

dschuyler: this sounds like a site settings issue. Can you help triage? 

IIUC, this bug is happening because of what is described at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=711156.

@dpapad, that's exactly the case.

I handled the case for the site settings page here https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/992886

I'll take a look at the 711156 and see if I can generalize the solution. Otherwise we'll need to partially redo the search wherever we notice this issue.

Another approach which has been discussed in the past is to stop changing the the toggle's label, such that the label always displays the exact same text whethe on or off.

This would also alleviate the problem (as well as addressing a different UX concern about changing labels being confusing). I think we have a bug for the latter (will look for it).

We could have fixed text in certain cases, but that could be considered a seperate problem from stale searches that need a partial refresh.

Another approach could be to tag dynamic text to be excluded from search altogeher.

Regarding marking dynamic text with no-search, there is some precedent for it. See https://codereview.chromium.org/2808403009. I think it might be fine for the Site Settings secondary rows (meaning it would not reduce the chances of a user finding what they are looking for when they query).