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.
