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dessant / clear-browsing-data

Browser extension for clearing browsing data, available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clear-browsing-data/
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'Cache Storage' Remains #24

Closed wiredrunner closed 5 years ago

wiredrunner commented 5 years ago

After clearing with the extension, sites which have 'cache storage' such as cnet.com, walgreens.com, zdnet.com, wunderground.com remain - these are not sites with cookies saved either.

The only options I have not checked are cookies and passwords.

dessant commented 5 years ago

How do you check what data remains after clearing?

wiredrunner commented 5 years ago

chrome://settings/siteData

dessant commented 5 years ago

I can't reproduce the issue, the cache is cleared when selected. cnet.com definitely saves a bunch of cookies, maybe that's what you confused with the cache.

wiredrunner commented 5 years ago

It literally says "Cache Storage" so its pretty difficult to confuse that with 'cookie'.

The 2nd image is chrome://settings/siteData prior to running 'clear browsing data' and the 1st is after running it. Cookies are regularly swept by 'cookie auto delete' and on weatherunderground blocked altogether.

Its not a huge issue just wanted to know if there was a way to avoid doing this manually.

Screenshot 2019-11-14 at 9 34 26 PM Screenshot 2019-11-14 at 9 37 09 PM

dessant commented 5 years ago

I've mixed things up, you're right, now I see the data that remains, even if all the data types are selected.

This is caused by a feature introduced in Chrome 72, cacheStorage can be cleared separately, so it is no longer cleared with the browser cache.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/browsingData

wiredrunner commented 5 years ago

Thanks.

dessant commented 5 years ago

It's a problem because that storage can be used for tracking across browser sessions. Chrome should have continued to clear both types of cache for backward compatibility, even if they've introduced more granular control, or at least Google should have notified the developers of extensions which use the browsingData API.

dessant commented 5 years ago

Fixed in https://github.com/dessant/clear-browsing-data/commit/c102d6cabf684fa9d7526a1616dcfe74721739f3.

@wiredrunner, thanks for taking the time to report and update the bug report, the new version will be published now.