Is Website Data and Freq. Visited Accurate?

My partner is very offended by **** yet he has at least 6 on his website data and had a site (KindGirls) on his frequently visited sites show up. He denies all of it though I said it was best to admit rather than not. He is very against all of that (he says) and doesn't know why they are in the website data or showing up as frequently visited. He's only had phone 2 months or so and laptop is windows so icloud sharing. He does use google and has a gmail account. Is he being truthful or is there any chance it is not accurate? All my website data history is accurate on all devices.

Shootka wrote:
Apple does not supply a definition as to what is "Website Data" and how is it different than " Cookies and Data" in the location you are referring to?
Its not different. Clearing Cookies and Data in one fell swoop from the settings clears all of it at once. You also have the option of clearing cookies or any of the website data individually in the Advanced settings.
If you were having a problem with one particular website, you could go into the Advanced settings and clear the data for just that one site if you wanted to do so, or clear the data for selected websites. When you do it from the Clear Cookies and Data setting - you clear all of it at once, for all websites that you have visited.

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How large is the partition you tried to create using BootCamp for Windows?
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