What are Cookies?
Ever while browsing a site, have you not noticed that it asked you for authorization to use cookies in your browser? Not all websites do, but a lot of them do. Now you may be wondering, what are cookies? This is what this article is about: explaining what these “computer cookies” are and also knowing what they are for.
Cookies are small units of information and data that are stored in our web browser. This information is sent by the site we visit, which uses it to verify our identity, although it may also yield data on the user's recent activity on the Internet.
Cookies fulfill two main functions. First, they are used to keep track of the users of the site. When a person enters a restricted area through their username and password, cookies prevent them from having to reposition their access data to access another sector of the page while their session is active. The cookie combines the browser, the user and the computer and turns it into a whole, identifying it as a single element.
The other function of cookies is undoubtedly the most controversial. Cookies can be used with bad intentions. Internet advertising agencies and spammers can use them to verify what our frequent browsing habits are and, based on that, send us advertising. Due to the little privacy they provide, cookies are frowned upon by some people.
Cookies are small units of information and data that are stored in our web browser. This information is sent by the site we visit, which uses it to verify our identity, although it may also yield data on the user's recent activity on the Internet.
Cookies fulfill two main functions. First, they are used to keep track of the users of the site. When a person enters a restricted area through their username and password, cookies prevent them from having to reposition their access data to access another sector of the page while their session is active. The cookie combines the browser, the user and the computer and turns it into a whole, identifying it as a single element.
The other function of cookies is undoubtedly the most controversial. Cookies can be used with bad intentions. Internet advertising agencies and spammers can use them to verify what our frequent browsing habits are and, based on that, send us advertising. Due to the little privacy they provide, cookies are frowned upon by some people.
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