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BrowsingDataLifetime

Browsing Data Lifetime Settings - BrowsingDataLifetime​

Configures browsing data lifetime settings for Google Chrome. This policy allows admins to configure (per data-type) when data is deleted by the browser. This is useful for customers that work with sensitive customer data.

The available data types are 'browsing_history', 'download_history', 'cookies_and_other_site_data', 'cached_images_and_files', 'password_signin', 'autofill', 'site_settings' and 'hosted_app_data'. 'download_history' and 'hosted_app_data' are not supported on Android.

The browser will automatically remove data of selected types that is older than 'time_to_live_in_hours'. The minimum value that can be set is 1 hour.

The deletion of expired data will happen 15 seconds after the browser starts then every 30 minutes while the browser is running.

Until Chrome 114, this policy required the SyncDisabled policy to be set to true. Starting Chrome 115, setting this policy will disable sync for the respective data types if neither Chrome Sync is disabled by setting the SyncDisabled policy nor BrowserSignin is disabled.

Data Type:

Array

Supported features:

  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: True
  • Per Profile: True