Now more than ever, Internet users are interested in protecting their privacy. Securing personal data on the Internet is a topical concern. Learning how to delete cookies and caches in your browser is undoubtedly an important first step in this direction.
Cookies and browser cache?
Cookies are those tiny files that store your login details, login preferences and other information about a previously visited website. This mechanism allows the sites you visit to “remember you”. It is thanks to cookies that you still do not have to change the settings of a site that you visit often every time. It is always thanks to cookies that the content of your basket on an e-commerce site is kept.
Your internet browser’s cache is a process of storing elements of a web page. In this way, the information stored in memory is no longer reloaded each time you revisit the same site. This improves the loading speed of web pages.
Why should you clean your cookies and the caches of your mobile browser?
Cleaning your Internet browsers means erasing the traces you leave behind after each turn on the Web. It is about protecting your privacy and securing your personal data.
Cleaning cookies and caches also frees up space on your mobile device, because having a little more space on your phone is always useful (for the speed of the latter).
From a more technical point of view, this operation allows you to assess the modifications made to your visited sites. As a result, your browser no longer uses the cache memory. On the contrary, it redoes the entire download of the data from the site. This is all the more necessary when working on the design or redesign of a website.
How to delete cookies and cache from Google Chrome?
Let’s start with one of the most popular internet browsers: Google Chrome.
- Open the Google Chrome app on your mobile device and click on the “three dots” in the upper right corner.
- Select the “History” section from the drop-down menu displayed.
- Click on the inscription “Clear browsing data”.
- Check the “cookies and site data” and/or “cached images and files” boxes.
- Click on “Last hour” to define the cleaning period concerned.
- Choose the appropriate cleaning period.
- Finally, click on “Delete data”.
Well done! You have just deleted the cache and cookies from your Google Chrome browser.
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How to delete cookies and cache from Firefox?
Deleting cache and cookies on Firefox Browser comes down to the following procedure:
- Open the Firefox Browser app on your mobile device and click on the “three dots” in the upper right corner.
- Scroll down the page to find “Delete browsing data”.
- Then click on “Delete browsing data”.
- In the “Delete browsing data” sub-menu, tick the appropriate boxes
- Click on “Delete browsing data”.
- After that, Firefox will ask you if you really want to continue the operation. Click “Delete” if this is the case and you’ll be done.
- You will also receive a notification to confirm the success of the operation.
How to delete cookies and cache from Samsung Internet?
If you’re using Samsung Internet to browse the web instead, here’s the procedure you’ll need to follow to achieve the intended goal.
- Go to the Samsung Internet browser and click on the three horizontal lines of the settings located in the lower right corner.
- Then click on “Settings”.
- Find and click on the “Personal data” menu in the list that appears.
- Once in this section, click on “Delete browsing data”.
- Once done, Samsung Internet will show you the various options available to delete your browsing data from its system. Now choose the options that suit you.
- Then click on the “Delete Data” button.
- The browser will ask for deletion confirmation; choose “Delete” if you are sure and the operation will be carried out.
- You will be able to see a success notification.
And there you go! You now know how to proceed to delete your personal data. Don’t hesitate to do it often so as not to leave this data within the reach of hackers.
