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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Delete cookies even avoiding permissions or restrictions

Reported by irbi...@gmail.com, Feb 5 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
2. Delete data (don't forget cookies box)
3. Cookies still exist

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
In the case of existing directives or permissions, for example in a company, it's not possible to delete all cookies. Sometimes you need to run Google Chrome as an Administrator to do that and, obviously, you can't do it.

Will be interesting an option to protect your own privacy. One solution is using Incognito Mode but but sometimes you can not use it for several reasons.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.140  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.3
Flash Version:
 
Components: Internals>Network>Cookies Privacy
Labels: -Type-Bug-Security -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam Needs-Feedback Type-Bug
Can you please elaborate on what you mean when you say "In the case of existing directives or permissions, for example in a company, it's not possible to delete all cookies. Sometimes you need to run Google Chrome as an Administrator to do that and, obviously, you can't do it."

Running Chrome as an Administrator should have no impact at all on Cookie deletion. A few UI bugs related to clearing browsing data have been fixed recently and this could well be a duplicate of the issue.

Can you please update this issue with screenshots of exactly what you see?

Comment 2 by irbi...@gmail.com, Feb 6 2018

When you work for some companies they 'lock' folders of My Documents and /Program Files/ folder. You can't access to these folders and you can't erase data in Chrome. This is a huge problem for privacy.

I checked cookies and i see still exit  in chrome://settings/siteData

Comment 3 by irbi...@gmail.com, Feb 6 2018

Is not a UI problem. 
Project Member

Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Feb 6 2018

Cc: elawrence@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "elawrence@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Labels: Needs-Triage-M64
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Chrome doesn't use either MyDocuments or Program Files for storing its data, and would not function properly without read/write access to its databases. Nevertheless, yes, it is possible for a PC to be configured in such a way to break Chrome and there's nothing Chrome can do about that.

Having said that, I expect the root cause of this issue is still the since-fixed UI glitch I mentioned above, but without the information requested there's no way to prove it. 


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