Our mobile devices, and web browsers in particular, love cookies. Or rather cookies. They mainly concern temporary files stored by the app and which, although not bad, should be eliminated from time to time.
Thus, knowing the importance of cookies on your Android, it is worth knowing how to eliminate them. It really is a simple and similar process in almost all browsers. Either way, we wanted to bring the steps together across the top five browsers.
Delete cookies in major browsers
As we said, all browsers collect cookies and, as such, all offer the option to delete them. In the following sections we explain how to do it in detail in each of them, from Google Chrome itself to other alternatives that have gained great popularity over the years.
Google Chrome
- Open Google Chrome on your mobile.
- Click on the icon with three dots at the top right.
- Go to settings’.
- Enter “Privacy and Security”.
- Now go to “Clear browsing data”.
- Select the “Cookies and site data” tab.
- Click on ‘Clear data’.
Brave
- Open Brave on your mobile.
- Click on the three dots at the bottom right.
- Go to settings’.
- Enter ‘Brave Protections and Privacy’.
- Scroll down to the “Clear browsing data” section and enter the section of the same name.
- Select the “Cookies and site data” tab.
- Click delete.
Microsoft Edge
- Open the Microsoft Edge app on your mobile.
- Click on the three dots at the bottom center.
- Go to ‘Settings’.
- Go to ‘Privacy and Security’.
- Now enter “Clear browsing data”.
- Check the ‘Cookies and site data’ tab.
- Click on ‘Clear data’.
MozillaFirefox
- Open the Firefox app on your mobile.
- Click on the three dots icon at the bottom right.
- Go to settings’.
- Go to “Clear browser data”.
- Select ‘Cookies’.
- Click on ‘Clear browsing data’.
Opera
- Open Opera on your mobile.
- Click on your profile picture at the bottom right.
- Enter the settings via its icon at the top right.
- Go to the “Privacy and security” section.
- Now click on ‘Clear data…’.
- Check the “Cookies and site data” box.
- Click on ‘Clear data’.
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