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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by BHSPitMonkey on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:26PM (#28408978)
If they're a non-developer, the ability to clear all of the cookies (or data) for a given site should be adequate to cover their needs (and if they're a developer, obviously they'll just use Developer Tools > Application for individual cookie manipulation).

If a non-developer is in a situation where they need to delete a single cookie by name but deleting _all_ of that site's cookies would be ruinous for some reason, then something's horribly wrong.

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by nett18 on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:19PM (#28409543)
Read the parent answer, it explains when deleting individual cookies is useful (even for non-devs)
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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by BHSPitMonkey on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:21PM (#28410525)
Not really? Cookie names/values are usually inscrutable to anyone who hasn't worked on the site in question, and the idea that a non-developer would need to selectively delete individual cookies to work around a bug in a site is just silly (those users are much better served by simply clearing all of that site's cookies and logging in again).

(And when the need truly does arise, there's a perfectly-good tool for that which is no harder to find than the sub-menu being deprecated.)

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