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A possible example of this is how the 'Clear Browsing Data' button in chrome for android has been moved to an inconspicious location away from the other settings, if you have an android device i invite you to see how easily you can find it without looking it up.

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I fail to see what would be 'dark' in the first place about making it hard to clear local browsing data on a single-user device.

Chrome is a web browser created (largely) by Google. Google makes their money (largely) from web advertising. Web advertising is far more effective if you can use things like cookies to decide what ads to show to people.

So the claim is that Google has an incentive to make it harder to clear local browsing data than if they just considered it from the perspective of what users would want.

Found it without hesitation. I don't see a better place to put it. It's not a setting, it's an action, related to the Privacy settings.

Impossible to find.

Menu -> History -> Clear.

I was referring to Chrome on Android, that is not where it is.

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