Rub Out: Selective History Cleaner

Delete specific sites, keywords, or NSFW entries from your Chrome history. Keep everything else.

Selective memory for your browser. Chrome only clears history in bulk: last hour, last day, all of it. Rub Out lets you pick exactly what goes. Remove one website, every page matching a keyword, or everything on a built-in blacklist of adult and inappropriate sites, and keep the rest of your history intact. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a time frame: last hour, day, week, 4 weeks, or all time. 2. Pick a filter: a single site, blacklisted sites, blacklisted terms, or all history. 3. Click Find to preview every matching entry, then Remove. Or click Find & Remove to do it in one step. FEATURES • Delete one website from history: type a domain and remove every visit to it. • Delete history by keyword: matches page titles and URLs. • Built-in blacklist of adult and NSFW words, phrases, and domains. Works out of the box. • Custom blacklist: add your own sites and terms. • Whitelist: protect sites and terms so they are never removed. • Deep Clean: wipe a matched site's entire history across all time, whatever time frame is selected. • Preview before deleting, with per-entry remove and paging for large result sets. • Undo restores the last batch of removed URLs. • Handles huge histories with a background worker and a progress bar. • Dark and light mode. USE CASES • Remove a job board or a competitor's site from a work machine. • Hide gift shopping, medical searches, or a surprise trip on a shared computer. • Clean a single keyword out of years of history in one pass. • Clear adult or NSFW sites from history before handing someone your laptop. PRIVACY Rub Out is free, has no ads, and collects no data. It requests only the history and storage permissions, and everything runs locally in your browser. Tip: if a removed URL still appears as an omnibox suggestion, select it and press Shift+Delete (Fn+Shift+Delete on Mac).