How-To

How to Remove Specific Site Cookies in Google Chrome

By Brian Burgess

Updated November 22, 2023

If you need to delete specific cookies in Google Chrome instead of all of them at once, you can. This saves the hassle of losing session data and preferences.

There are many reasons why you might want to delete all cookies in Chrome on your desktop or on your mobile. Perhaps you’re having problems loading a site, or perhaps you visited a shady site by accident and need to get rid of the cookies using the nuke button. However, sometimes you don’t want to delete all of them in one fell swoop since it can be a huge pain to log in to all your favorite sites and email accounts again. In these cases, you just want to clear the cookies from a single website and call it good.

For example, I’m a pet owner who sometimes visits Chewy.com for pet food. But when I leave the site, all I see is Chewy ads for the next few weeks. This is super annoying since I’ve already bought the food; I don’t need to see more ads to buy MORE food. In this case, going in and blowing away the cookie from that single site is super convenient and, as you will see below, super easy.

Delete Site-Specific Cookies in Chrome

Launch Chrome and head to Settings > Privacy and security > Site settings > View permissions and data stored across sites

Or, easier yet, copy and paste the below into the address bar and hit Enter.

chrome://settings/content/all

Scroll through the list of sites, or just use the search box at the top to find the website you want to delete the cookies for. In this example, I’ll just delete the cookies for the first site on the list. 1Password. Don’t get me wrong, 1Password is an awesome password manager everyone on the planet should be using. But anyway, back to my tutorial…

Of course, an easier answer to this problem would be to open an incognito Chrome session while doing online shopping. Still, if you need to delete site-specific cookies, it can be done.

I have no issue with sites using cookies for advertising, as it’s normally the only source of revenue—thus keeping the internet free in most cases. In fact, our site here at groovyPost is made possible through ads. If sites have respectable ads that aren’t popping up all over the place or trying to trick the reader, it’s fine. But some go overboard when using cookies and start displaying ads for things you just bought all over the place. This isn’t just for ads, either. No matter why you need to delete a cookie, it’s good to know you can remove a specific one without deleting all cookies that save your preferences and session data.