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Cookies are small text files files that contain information about your visits to a website. They may contain the date you last visited the site, your login credentials, the pages you visited on the site, settings and preferences you have made on the site etc.
They are usually harmless and only have the purpose of storing user information between separate visits to a site. For example on a news portal you may choose the favourite topics you want to appear for you each time you visit the site - this information is stored by your browser in cookie files.
Tracking cookies are a special kind of cookies which are mainly used by advertising companies - these cookies try to store what kind of webpages you visit, how often etc and show you customized advertising based on this information.
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How can you permanently delete tracking cookies' virus?
Tracking cookies are not actually a virus. Some antivirus software detects them, because many users do not want them. Tracking cookies are used by advertisers to detect when you view their advertisements. If you do not want tracking cookies, you can visit these advertisers' websites, where they generally provide you with the option to opt out of these cookies. Install CCleaner from piriform and that should remove all the cookies on your Windows system.
What are cookies in relation to the internet?
cookies, are text files sent by a server to a web client and could be Web cookies or tracking cookies
Why do certain websites use tracking cookies?
TTHey eat the d@m cookies
How do the tracking cookies come to a PC?
Cookies come from Websites that you visit, across the Internet, and into your PC.
Why doesn't Hotmail remember your address?
Tracking cookies google it
What are the ingredients used to make tracking cookies?
Tracking cookies are not things that you can bake, though they sound like they'd be delicious. Cookies are pieces of information online, that various sites will use. They're basically information related to browsing habits
What do computer programmers use tracking logs for?
Computer programmers use tracking logs (also known as tracking cookies) for tracking a user's internet web browsing. Tracking logs are small bits of data that are stored in our computer when browsing the internet.
A program that tracks a user's internet usage without the user's permission is called?
tracking cookies
Will 9 search engines in your search box cause videos to slow down?
no but tracking cookies will
Is YouTube Tracking You?
In a way, yes. They put tracking cookies (small files used to store information) on your computer whenever you visit their site. They often cause very few problems, but if you don't want to be tracked, turn off cookies in your browser settings.
What are software cookies?
A software cookie is a item, where in many cases such as google to personalize your advertisements. Cookies also are in amazon for related items. Tracking cookies are a bit of a problem. They send information to third party sites...
What is flsdoubleclicknet?
It is an ad website made by Google. They may put tracking cookies on your computer, so be careful.
