How to delete adult sites from your Chrome history (without deleting everything)

To delete an adult site from your Chrome history without clearing everything, open chrome://history, type the site’s name, select the results, and click “Remove.” It takes thirty seconds, and your lasagna recipes stay exactly where they are.

Why not just clear everything?

On a shared computer, someone types “x” in the address bar to go to X (formerly Twitter), and Chrome suggests something else. Watching adult content isn’t illegal, but it’s your private business—not the kind of way you want the conversation to start.

The instinct is to clear it all. Bad idea. You’ll lose your logins and recent tabs, and, more importantly, nobody actually has an empty history. On a shared computer, an empty history is the digital equivalent of whistling with your hands in your pockets.

Here’s how to remove only adult sites, on desktop and mobile, and then how to clean up the traces Chrome saves elsewhere that we almost always forget.

Method 1: Search for the site in your history (desktop)

This is the official method, and it works on Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS.

1. Open your history: type chrome://history in the address bar, or use the shortcut Ctrl + H (Cmd + Y on Mac).
2. In the “Search history” field, enter the name of the site, for example, example.com. Only pages from this site will appear.
3. Check the box to the left of the first entry. To select several at once, hold Shift and check the last one: everything in between is selected.
4. In the top right, click “Remove,” then confirm.

Tip: Chrome also searches page titles. Try another search using keywords like “porn,” “xxx,” or “sex.” Video titles can surface sites you hadn’t even thought of.

If you’re signed in to Chrome with sync enabled, the deletion applies to your other devices, too. That’s handy, but it works both ways: what you visit on your phone may show up on the family computer.

Method 2: “More from this site”

If a site shows up dozens of times spread over a few weeks, this alternative is faster.

1. In chrome://history, find a single entry for the site in question.
2. Click the three dots to the right of the entry, then “More from this site.”
3. Chrome filters your history by domain. Check the first entry, hold Shift, and check the last.
4. Click “Remove.”

Watch out for subdomains and variants: www.example.com, m.example.com, and example.fr are treated as separate sites. Do another keyword search to make sure nothing’s left.

On Android and iPhone

The idea is the same: search for the site, then delete the results.

On Android

1. In Chrome, tap the three dots at the top right, then “History.”
2. Tap the magnifying glass and type the site's name.
3. Tap the X to the right of an entry to delete it. To remove several, long-press the first one, select others, then tap the trash can.

On iPhone and iPad

1. In Chrome, tap the three dots at the bottom right, then “History.”
2. Type the site’s name in the search bar.
3. Swipe an entry left to delete it, or tap “Edit” to select multiple, then tap “Delete.”

On mobile, you can’t select a range with Shift: if there are lots of entries, you have to tap them one by one.

The fast method: WasntMe

Manual methods work for a single site. But it’s rarely just one: several domains, dozens of pages over weeks, explicit searches on Google, cookies, tiles. It quickly turns into detective work, and it only takes one trace left behind.

WasntMe is a free Chrome extension designed for exactly this. It finds adult sites and explicit searches by domain name, page title, and search text, and deletes only those traces in three clicks:

1. Scan: It reviews your history, searches, cookies, cache, and downloads.
2. Review: The found sites appear with their names blurred (p•••••b.com). You can uncheck anything you want to keep.
3. Delete: Only these traces are deleted. You stay logged in to Google and your other accounts.

It also cleans up http, https, and www variants that manual searches might miss. You can add your own domains and whitelist sites that should never be touched.

As for privacy: no account, no server, no network requests. Your history is read on your device and never leaves your browser.

Add WasntMe to Chrome