Browsing Data Lifetime Settings

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 policy will only take effect if SyncDisabled is set to true.

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'.

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 hour while the browser is running.
See https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=BrowsingDataLifetime for more information about schema and formatting.

Example value:

[
{
"time_to_live_in_hours": 24,
"data_types": [
"browsing_history"
]
},
{
"time_to_live_in_hours": 12,
"data_types": [
"password_signin",
"autofill"
]
}
]

Browsing Data Lifetime Settings (The single-line field is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please start using the multi-line textbox below.)

Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Google\ChromeOS
Value Name	BrowsingDataLifetime
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value

Registry Hive	HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Google\ChromeOS
Value Name	BrowsingDataLifetime
Value Type	REG_MULTI_SZ
Default Value