The Missing Logins
Google Chrome is highly customizable regarding privacy. Some users, in an attempt to keep their browsing habits secure, enable a feature that automatically scrubs their browser data clean every time they exit the application. However, if you configure Chrome to automatically delete your “Cookies and other site data” upon closing, you will experience a significant inconvenience: you will be forcibly logged out of every single website (Gmail, Reddit, Amazon, etc.) every time you restart your computer. Cookies are the small files that tell a website “this user is already authenticated,” and deleting them severs that connection entirely.
Preserving Cookies on Exit
To stay logged into your favorite websites across reboots and stop Google Chrome from automatically deleting your cookies when you close the browser, you must modify the specific exit-behavior settings.
Open Google Chrome. Click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner and select Settings. In the left-hand navigation menu, click on Privacy and security. In the main panel, click on Site settings. Scroll down and click on Additional content settings to expand it, then click on On-device site data (on older Chrome versions, this is simply under ‘Cookies and other site data’). Look for the critical setting labelled Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all windows. If the toggle next to this is blue (On), Chrome is wiping your cookies. Click the toggle to turn it grey (Off). You will now remain securely logged into your accounts even after a full system restart.