{"id":30479,"date":"2020-10-16T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30479"},"modified":"2020-10-22T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:12:15","slug":"chrome-exempts-google-sites-from-user-site-data-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/chrome-exempts-google-sites-from-user-site-data-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Exempts Google Sites From User Site Data Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Google Chrome’s “Cookies and site data” settings, accessible via the Preferences menu item or directly with chrome:\/\/settings\/cookies<\/tt> in the address bar, you can enable the setting “Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome”. However, I’ve discovered that Chrome exempts Google’s own sites, such as Search and YouTube, from this setting.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Some people are going to read this article and say “Use Safari instead of Chrome!” But it’s important to note that Safari doesn’t even have the feature to clear site data on quit, so Safari is actually worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2020-10-20): See also: Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2020-10-22): Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Someone on Hacker News indicated that this Chromium commit<\/a> yesterday is the fix for my bug.<\/p>\n

If so, the bug was introduced into Chromium 5 months ago and apparently shipped in Chrome 85 about 2 months ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So, it seems that Google actually shipped a partial fix today.<\/p>\n

In my testing it’s fixed in Chrome 86.0.4240.111 for youtube.com but still broken for google.com<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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