There are good and bad points to clearing or not clearing out your web browser’s cache.
Advantages to Cache
- When you browse a website for the first time your web browser contains details about the website in a file called cache, if you browse on that same website the browser will bring up the website a lot faster basically given the user a speedier web experience
The drawbacks to cache
- In some instances, the browser doesn’t display the up to date version of the site
- Over time it starts to slow down your pc/laptop/mobile keeping a lot of junk memory
- Some other website can read your cache and start targeting you with ads, in some worse case scenarios your browsing history is sent to a 3rd party server
For best practices clear out your cache once a month alongside a virus scan
Below are some links listing some steps for clearing out your cache for mobiles and desktop browsers
Click here for Mobile Users
Click here for Desktop Users
