Unable to get wallet and wallet provider metadata in incognito tab or in a different browser

[slavaborovsky]

I am using @web3modal/ethers and siwe packages to implement a security feature to connect a client's wallet as a separate 2FA factor. One of the requirements is that during login to my website, I need to grab the user's connected wallet info from web3modal and send a sign-in request to the wallet to complete the login procedure.

I can successfully connect the wallet and fetch the necessary data from web3modal as long as a client stays in the same browser where they connected their wallet.

The issue begins when a user is trying to open my website in:

• incognito mode
• a different browser/laptop/mobile
• or clear the browser's storage/cookies/indexDB (WalletConnect seems to store a lot of data in the browser)

In those scenarios, I can no longer receive the connected wallet and the wallet provider metadata - web3modal does not send anything back.
The way I fetch the wallet is Web3Modal.getWalletInfo and Web3Modal.subscribeWalletInfo while for getting wallet provider metadata I use Web3Modal.getWalletProvider.

Note that I can reproduce it in the Web3 labs example https://lab.web3modal.com/library/ethers/

My question is - is it the expected behavior and is there a possibility to fetch the connected wallet on any device/browser a client is accessing my website?

I suspect it is made by design so I wonder if someone had to do something similar and what might be the workaround.

Thanks in advance.