Chrome is one of the most popular and important browsers for mobile phones and computers worldwide.
This Google tool has the mission to provide the user with the best experience when browsing the Internet . Its objective is for the browser to remember user data and also their preferences based on previous visits to the different pages.
In order to realize this amazing experience Chrome uses cookies that are data that is stored in the same browser and that remain there until we delete them. We present all the information you have to know about one of the stars of Google, your Chrome browser.
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While in the “Privacy policies” , Google informs each of us that our data will be protected and will only be used by the browser to improve our navigation on different websites.
In addition, it states that the collection of information that belongs to us, we can only see it. This is not so, since many times we find ourselves without knowing where advertisements aimed directly at us arose.
Has it ever happened to you that you searched for a product in an online store and later when you read an article in a newspaper, for example, without being related to your previous navigation, and suddenly those products that you had searched in advance appear ?
Surely this happened to you , and it was generated by your preferences when browsing some websites. This work was done by cookies . Therefore , Google does share our information with different companies or Internet sites to guide us with specific advertising.
That is why it is recommended that we delete these cookies from our browser so that our data is secure and not treated by intruders to whom we have not given our permission.
We will have to distinguish in our work 2 points to consider:
- The first, we will analyze Chrome as a computer browser ;
- And the second part of our study will show you how to delete these cookies from Chrome, but from a mobile phone.
Steps to delete Google Chrome cookies from your computer
In order to delete the files that contain our information in detail, we will detail step by step the procedure that you must do so that your security is in good hands.
We are now dedicated to show you what you should do:
- The first thing we will do is open the browser
- We click on «More» , which is represented by three points vertically
- We look for “More tools” and click on it
- “Clear browsing data” will be the next thing we will have to press.
- We can choose to delete “All periods”
- “Cookies and other site data” and “Files and stored images in cache » will be the two boxes that we must check
- As a last step we choose « Delete data »
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The browser offers another alternative if we do not want to delete everything, and is to delete part of the cookies, for that we will do the following:
- As in the previous case, we open our browser
- We are going to moreMore ””
- Select “More tools”
- Press «Clear browsing data»
- The next step will be to choose accounCookies with
- We choose the date range or order or sites we want to delete.
The browser also offers the option to automatically delete cookies. If we want to do so we will have to do these steps:
- Choose «Advanced settings»
- Later we will click on “Website settings”
- We search «Cookies» to select
- And we chose to deactivate «Allow websites to save and consult cookie data»
Now, it is the turn of our smartphone regardless of the operating system that it has, Chrome is the navigation chosen by the majority of mobile and tablet manufacturers. Usually it comes installed by default and when we activate our cell phone this tool starts automatically.
Here are how you can delete cookies from a mobile with Android operating system, for this you will have to perform the following process:
- Open the browser on our smartphone
- Select moreMoremore
- Choose «History» and do click on it
- We look for the «Clear browsing data» option and select it
- It is time to choose which time interval we want to delete and select «All periods»
- The “Cookies and site data” and “Cached files and images” we will mark them with a tilde
- Press «Delete data»
In case we don’t want to erase everything, we will have to repeat all the steps, but when we get to “All periods” we will have to indicate the interval we want.
If our mobile or smartphone has an iOS operating system , we will have to perform the following task that we detail step by step:
- We open our Chrome browser on an iPhone or iPad
- We choose the «Menu» identified with three points vertically
- Select «Settings»
- We search “Privacy” and click on this option
- Choose “Clear cache”
- Then we click on “Delete cookies”
- We will have to choose “Delete all”
If what we need is to delete some of the cookie information, we will do a similar process:
- We open the Chrome browser on an iPhone or iPad
- We search «Menu» do not forget that it is identified with three points vertically
- We search to select permittedSettings
- In «Privacy» we click
- Choose «Clear cache » by clicking there
- We click on « Delete cookies »
- We choose « Site data » and we look for everything we need to remove