Chrome Again Exempts Google from User Site Data Settings
Six years after reporting a similar bug, developer Jeff Johnson finds Chrome 152 on macOS again saving google.com site data despite the user's setting to delete all site data when windows close. Reproduced on two Macs, the issue persists across relaunches and affects only www.google.com, storing cookies, local storage, and session storage. Johnson calls it incompetence, not conspiracy, and urges Google to improve QA.
Nonetheless, Google has no excuse for incompetence either, especially given the amount of money made by the company (which I'll always call Google, not Alphabet) and its engineers.
- liquid_thyme
Chrome may be an excellent browser, but the venn diagram overlap with malware keeps getting larger.
- MetroWind
I just don't understand why people keep using Chrome.
- fedpost
It's okay, they're not a monopoly according to this administration. Nothing to see here, carry on!
- atoa
Coincidently, I ran into this same situation last week. Spent way too much time trying to delete some accidental search query from pasting something in the url bar. Tried a bunch of things without luck. Had to manually delete records in a couple of SQLite files under the Chrome profile to make it go away.
- flyingshelf
When you log into Google, you also log into Chrome. This means that you'll have a lot of exceptions for Google websites or else a "clear history" would log you out of Chrome.
Not justifying it (I don't use chrome) but that's likely what's happening here.
- mgiampapa
I feel like the obvious thing to check here is that all chrome processes have terminated between tests. If it's still running some zombie process of course the data would persist.
- Zarathustra30
While I absolutely believe this, the author should include a control. Go to a different website that sets data, and show that it is deleted when Google data is not.
- sansah
Google just did Google thing on a Google owned browser. No surprises here of course