Websites send out cookies to users when they access them. These cookies are a way for websites to monitor your behavior across the site. Then they use that information to display things as per your preferences and choices. Websites say that cookies and cache will help load the page faster as the information about the site is already saved in the browser. But not every website is safe, and most of them track user’s activities across the web.
Having cookies and cache of a particular site does come with some advantages as the pages load faster if you have a slow connection. It even saves the sign in or login information of a user. And using that information, a user can automatically log in to the website with just a simple click. But as mentioned above, not every site’s cookies work in the best interest of the user. But thankfully, if you are suspicious about a particular website’s cookies and you want to clear them out, then you can do it. In this article, we will guide you on how you can clear out cookies and cache for a specific site in the Google Chrome browser.
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Clearing cookies and cache will mean that websites which you have visited before will load slower than before. And forms also won’t be filled out automatically. You will have to fill out every information manually. Some websites might even show up error messages, and then it will ask you permission to allow cookies again. But if you are someone who doesn’t want ad companies to track your internet movement, then clearing cookies is your only way out.
To clear out cookies, you will have to clear out the cache for that website, and that will clear out the cookies. Now, if you use Chrome on your phone and PC, clearing out the cache from your phone won’t take care of the cookies on the PC. Cookies are hardware-specific, so you will have to clear out cookies on every device individually. And clearing out a site’s cookie on the Chrome browser, won’t clear it out from the Firefox or Safari or any other such browser either. To get rid of cookies on every browser that you use on a device, you will have to get into the settings of each of these browsers individually.
How to Clear Cookies and Cache for One Site in Chrome Browser?
So we will guide you on how to clear out cookies cache memory for a particular website in the Chrome browser.
- Open the Google Chrome browser.
- Go into the site whose cache and cookie data you want to clear out.
- Click on the small lock icon right next to the address bar.
- Click on “Site settings.”
- Now click on the button “Clear data” button you see on the next window.
- Click on “Clear” again on the pop-up window that shows up asking for confirmation.
- Refresh the webpage.
Now some websites have subdomain websites. The above method will only clear out the cookie and cache data for the main site which you have entered in the address bar. If you want to clear out even the sub-domain websites, then try the next fix.
- In the address bar of Google Chrome, enter “chrome://settings/content/all” without the quotes.
- Here you will see a list of all the sites whose cookies and cache data is stored on your system. Click on the website whose data you want to clear out.
- All the subdomain websites linked to that website will show up. Click on the subdomain website whose data you want to clear out.
- In the next window, click on the “clear data” button and then click on the “clear” button in the pop-up window that shows up asking for confirmation.
This method will help you clear out the cookies and cache data of a particular subdomain website. If you wish to clear out every subdomain website’s cookies and cache related to a primary or domain site, then try the next method.
- In the address bar of Google Chrome, enter “chrome://settings/content/all” without the quotes.
- Here you will see a list of all the sites whose cookies and cache data is stored on your system.
- Click on the three-dot icon next to the main domain site and then choose “Clear data.”
- Click on “Clear” when a pop-up window shows up, asking for confirmation of your action.
This will clear every subdomain website’s cookies and cache data related to the main domain whose data you cleared out.
This simple method will get rid of all the cookies and cache data stored for a website on your Chrome browser. After this, if you visit that site again, then it will probably load at a slower speed. If it is a website that requires a login to an account, then you will be asked to log in again using your credentials.
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