What are cookies on a computer?

Answer 1

A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer by a web site. It is most commonly used to personalize a web site for the visitor to that site.

For example, have you ever gone to purchase something from a web site, added something to a shopping trolley, and closed the page.

Then you come back later, and notice the same information is in your shopping trolley. Most commonly this is because it was stored in a cookie on your PC.

Answer 2

Cookies

Did you notice that when you come back to that website where you made purchase days later, you are greeted with a phrase like 'Welcome back ...!'. Do you know how websites remember your name and preferences? The answer is very simple - websites use computer cookies.

Computer cookies are pieces of data that are sent to your browser from web sites you visit, identify you as a unique user and track your web usage. Every time you visit a certain website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences and other information about you. Computer cookies can do everything from monitoring your visit throughout web sites to tracking how many times you've visited the site, how long you've been on the site, the log-in information at a particular page to remember important information about your computer.

The purposes of cookies are to recognize user and retain his/her personal preferences when he/she returns to a website. If you personalize web pages, register for products or services, cookies help to recall your specific information. This may be useful to simplify the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, etc

Should I clean cookies on my computer?

Every time you visit a website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences, etc.

Despite cookies are useful, they can also store such information as your name and password on protected login pages, preferences, account information and choices you have made on the site. Are there some sites you visit that you'd like to keep private?

And even if you clean browser history, cookies like a map will show your Surfing preferences, habits, passwords, etc. Even if the cookies don't contain such information they clearly show that you visited the sites from which they came. So to protect your privacy, you should constantly clean cookies.

Also in one of their malevolent forms, cookies from one web site might track your visits to a different web site. For example, most of the ads that you see on web sites do not come from the site that you are viewing, but from sites that provide ads to many sites. When the advertising site displays the ad, it can send cookies on your computer. This lets the advertising company track your web usage over a range of sites and profile your browsing habits.

Cleaning cookies

One way to maintain your privacy is to clean cookies manually. But in internet Explorer even if you clean cookies manually, index.dat file stores Internet surfing information. This file keeps a total record of every website you visit. And this file is locked, so you cannot delete it by hand.

Clear All History makes it easy to protect your privacy and clean cookies information from your computer, including the locked cookies index.dat file.

Using Clear All History you can clean cookies in Internet Explorer (including index file), MSN Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape

Answer 3

Here is what cookies are on a computer. I'll give you an example. When you go to a website the administrator of this website for security reasons puts a cookie in your computer. It's a way for the website to find someone when they leave the site if someone were to ruin this site on purpose. Or for any other reason. Most sites put a cookie in your computer. These can be deleted too.

A2

Cookies are small data files that are put on your computer by some sites that you visit. The next time you visit the site, they can be checked on to see if you have been there before. They are like little flags that can be checked on and counted, used for customer information and research.

They can also be used for targeted advertising, which is sometimes annoying.

They are never deleted by sites, so they tend to accumulate and clog up space.

That's why it is useful to delete them manually, or set your computer to clear them out regularly.

Answer 4

Whenever you visit a website, you may want some of your preferences to be remembered for your next visits. For example, if you select English as your preferred language, you do not want to do that again every time you visit that website.

So what the website does is that it saves these preferences on your computer, in a small text file. this text file is called a cookie.

Every website can only have one text file (cookie)

A website cannot access the cookies saved by other websites.

The size of the text file for a cookie is limited to 4 kB (that's approx. 4000 characters)

Answer 5

A cookie is a small bundle of information that is saved on your computer by a website or web application so that it can save information about you for the next time you visit the site. Cookies store your last used username so that you can log in easily and store info about your preferences for the site. Cookies can also be used to store saved game information in online games and lots of other data. Cookies can be used by other sites to track where you have been on the internet, by checking to see if certain cookies are there. This can be used by hackers sometimes, but is more commonly used by companies trying to figure out what ads to show you.

Answer 6

Also called as browser cookies, they are actually the data or message that is send from web servers to Web Browsers as a response to the request (eg: when you type Google website from browser) . Cookies are created when a user's browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website's server. Computer Cookies are created not just by the website the user is browsing but also by other websites that run ads, widgets, or other elements on the page being loaded. These cookies regulate how the ads appear or how the widgets and other elements function on the page.

Answer 7

saved information from web pages ie: passwords

Answer 8

It means, have some virtual cookies, and stop eating them in real life you fat american. (:

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Answer 9

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