Question YouTube cookies use up multiple gigabytes in Firefox?

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My Firefox just gave me a warning, that it's running out of disk space. After checking what may have caused this I stumbled upon this:

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Anyone knows what causes this? :confused:
 
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This could be due to YouTube storing a large amount of cookies and cache data on your Firefox browser. Try clearing your browser's cookies and cache to free up some disk space.
 
Kongo said:
My Firefox just gave me a warning, that it's running out of disk space. After checking what may have caused this I stumbled upon this:

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Anyone knows what causes this? :confused:
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Doesn't help much, no issues on YT in my Firefox, but I usually close the browsers within 1 hour, all cookies and website data are deleted automatically (custom setting).

How long did you browsing on YouTube?
 
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silversurfer said:
Doesn't help much, no issues on YT in my Firefox, but I usually close the browsers within 1 hour, all cookies and website data are deleted automatically (custom setting).

How long did you browsing on YouTube?
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I mean I often use youtube, but I clear the data every month. I doubt that it would take up so much space within a month.
 
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That's really odd! It sounds like YouTube's cookies are somehow taking up an enormous amount of space. Have you tried clearing your cookies and site data for YouTube specifically? That might help free up some space. If it keeps happening, maybe consider using a different browser for YouTube or checking if there's a known bug related to this.
 
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EstrellaRhodes said:
That's really odd! It sounds like YouTube's cookies are somehow taking up an enormous amount of space. Have you tried clearing your cookies and site data for YouTube specifically? That might help free up some space. If it keeps happening, maybe consider using a different browser for YouTube or checking if there's a known bug related to this.
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Thank you but as I said I already fixed it. Will see if it happens again in the future. (y)
 
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