I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
Bah!
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On 14/12/2025 12:19 am, Grimble wrote:

I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
Bah!

Either that or stop your Radio program and empty your Cache.

Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache .... Clear Cache button

Then restart your radio program.
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On 2025-12-13 08:19, Grimble wrote:

I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
Bah!

Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

They lied.

TJ

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On 2025-12-15, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:

On 2025-12-13 08:19, Grimble wrote:

I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile
1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to
Firefox?
Bah!

Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

The above however is not evidence of that. It could equally be a mistake
or a bug. It looks like they are saving the audio in the cache (40KB/s
is the standard audio rate), and they are probably saving it until you
stop running that program. Whether that is a good thing (having the
previous and future stuff on the local system so you can easily page
back or forward-- you do not say whether these are recorded broadcasts
or live)-- withough needing to re-download load everything again), or bad (filling up your memory
probably depends on your situation or likes.

They lied.

About what? I have never seen them claim that they would not save stuff
on your disk. Just because you do not like their choice of default
behaviour does not mean either that they or evil or that they lied.

TJ

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On 16/12/25 00:28, TJ wrote:

Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

They lied.

TJ

That did elicit a laugh at the time


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On 16/12/25 00:28, TJ wrote:

Remember the days when Google's motto was supposed to be 'Don't be evil?'

They lied.

TJ

That did elicit a laugh at the time


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On 13/12/2025 13:19, Grimble wrote:

I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile 1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to Firefox?
Bah!

Thanks for your comments. I've decided to run Chrome only when I need it.
G

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On 2025-12-19, Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

On 13/12/2025 13:19, Grimble wrote:

I keep getting messages about my home drive running out of space. With
the help of du and sdiff -s, I found that .cache/google-chrome/Profile
1/Cache/Cache-Data was filling up at the rate of 260KiB every 6
seconds, connected to Chrome playing BBC radio. I listen to internet
radio for long periods, so it's not surprising. Time to switch (back) to
Firefox?
Bah!

Thanks for your comments. I've decided to run Chrome only when I need it.

You could try chromium instead. Alternatively as kludge run a crontab
which empies the cache evry minute or so of the bbc radio caches.

G

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