A cookie count taken the instant after close is not a count, it is a zero
Chrome's file handles outlive its process exit on Windows. A profile holding 431 cookies journalled as having lost every one of them.
5 min readDivyansh Singh
Cookies
2 posts in the Ward journal on this subject. Each one names the data it rests on, the tool that produced it and the claim it makes, at the bottom of the page.
Chrome 96 moved the cookie database, and half the tooling never noticed
The cookie file moved to Default\Network\Cookies. Code that reads only the old path reports an intact profile as empty, with no error.
3 min readDivyansh Singh
Ward is the desktop application these measurements came out of
Many browser profiles on one PC, each with its own proxy and its own device identity. Free plan, free account, nothing to buy today.