Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
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Jeff Johnson (My apps, PayPal.Me, Mastodon)
September 5 2026
Six years ago I published a blog post Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings that received quite a bit of attention: Michael Tsai, Hacker News The Register, The Verge, and Gizmodo, among others. The blog post was about a Google Chrome bug that mysteriously exempted Google-owned sites from the setting to automatically delete all site data. Eventually, spurred by my repor...
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