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How to clear all service workers in chrome in bulk

You can see all the service workers running crap on your system if you visit: chrome://serviceworker-internals/ in your browser.

It lists service worker internals such as installation status, the running script and the service worker scope.

    Scope: https://twitter.com/
    Registration ID: 0 (unregistered)
    Navigation preload enabled: false
    Navigation preload header length: 4
    Active worker:
    Installation Status: ACTIVATED
    Running Status: RUNNING
    Fetch handler existence: EXISTS
    Script: https://twitter.com/sw.js
    Version ID: 111
    Renderer process ID: 68693
    Renderer thread ID: 19
    DevTools agent route ID: 52
    Client:
    ID: fcf2a23e-9af3-4001-b196-c942340be16a
    URL: https://twitter.com/stefanjudis

The page also includes actions for every service worker including an unregister one.

To clear them out in bulk, open dev-tools -> console and paste this in and hit enter

$$('[data-command="unregister"]').forEach(b => b.click())
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