Google Chrome: how to delete your personal data stored by a website

Find out how to delete all personal data stored by a website with Google Chrome.

How to delete personal data stored by a site?

With the deployment of Chrome 97, the latest update to the search browser, Google wants to strengthen the security of its users. To do this, the browser no longer simply stops at cookies and browsing history, but now offers the possibility of deleting all the personal data possessed by a website.

Here are the steps to delete personal data stored on a website:

• In Google Chrome, click on the symbol represented by the three vertical dots, located at the top right of your screen,
• Choose Settings , then Security and privacy ,
• Click on Site settings then View permissions and data stored on sites.

You then access the list of all the websites, with details of the cookies and the storage space used by each of them. You then have two options:

• Delete all data from all websites, by clicking on Clear all data ,
• Delete data from a specific website by pressing the three vertical dots displayed next to the relevant site, then Clear data .

In addition to securing your personal information, sorting the data held by the different sites will also allow you to optimize your storage space. As the example below shows, the accumulation of cookies can quickly penalize your storage capacity.

How to update Google Chrome?

To benefit from the option of deleting personal data on a site, it is necessary to have Chrome 97, the latest browser update. To do this :

• In Google Chrome, click on the icon represented by three vertical dots, in the upper right corner of your screen,
• Select Help , then About Google Chrome ,
• Click on Update Google Chrome,
• To complete the update, press Relaunch   to restart your browser with the new version.

Note: If you don’t see the Update Google Chrome button, your browser is already running the most recent browser version.