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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by AlexandrB on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:21AM (#24837591)
> A Google spokesperson has been in touch to say the issue is a programming error, and will be fixed: "We are aware of a bug in Chrome that is impacting how cookies are cleared on some first-party Google websites. We are investigating the issue, and plan to roll out a fix in the coming days."

It's really hard to give Google the benefit of the doubt at this point.

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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by Thaxll on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:23AM (#24837616)
I'm sure it was working before because I re-call removing everything and was unlogged from Google.
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by pintxo on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:28AM (#24837695)
Wouldn't this make it even worse? It worked correctly, then they changed it to _not_ work for their sites?
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by Arnt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:45AM (#24837904)
The source is public and the version history too, so you don't need to assume, you can look. If you don't see anything particular, you may assume that it's a bug and wasn't easily visible to the developers either.
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by fblifeadvice645 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:21AM (#24838371)
This will most likely be a patch the product bits pf Chrome, not chromium. The bug isn't in Edge.
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by burnerfi5724 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:01PM (#24841135)
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/f800edb...

Here's the fix, the bug is in chromium but only affects chrome because it has some "Hosted Apps" installed out of the box.

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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by zelphirkalt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:30PM (#24839344)
You are talking about Chrome or Chromium?
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by Arnt on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:32PM (#24840814)
When I looked at the source, around 2015, there wasn't much difference, other than the name. People called "Google" were allowed to name the result of building it "Chrome". If you weren't Google you had to call it Chromium, and could of course apply patches or change the build flags. The functional differences I saw then were all a result of patches that were applied by my distribution.
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by pivor on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:35AM (#24837782)
Where you'd assume clearing Cookies to be as simple as cookieStore.clear() - I can imagine it's due to some legacy remainder of times when they did do everything to track without consent.
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