What is the difference between cookies and cache?

Answer 1

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Cache is a temporary storage folder(s) on your hard drive, which stores downloaded web pages and their components. For example, the HTML file, graphics, any applets. This makes reloading pages easier, as components that have not been updated on the server do not need to be downloaded again. Also, many graphics are repeated on a site from one page to the next. The cache makes this redundant usage of graphics more efficient.

A Cookie is a text file, which also resides in your cache, that has some information stored about your session on a website. It may store a key so you won't need to log in, or it may store information about what you accessed while you were there. Sometimes, so-called 3rd party cookies are placed in your cache to record some of your activity to make it easier for companies to market the most effective advertisements to you.

In IE, Firefox, and every other browser out there, you have settings to help manage cookie privacy settings, to disallow certain types of cookies. There are also settings to manage how the cache functions in general, how much storage space it maintains (once it reaches the limit it will delete the oldest stuff first), and for how long it maintains a history of those temporary files and website URLs (addresses) that you visited.

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Answer 2

A computer cookie is a small text file which has a unique ID tag from a website. IT contains information that you use often like name, address, mail ids etc.Whereas a cache is a place where computer/OS stored contents to be readily and efficiently accessible. Operating systems use caching to improve system performance

Answer 3

Cookies are files that websites store on your system. These are small text files that contain information such as your preferences for that particular website. This helps the website recognize your computer when you visit the website again, and load the saved preferences.

Cache files are files that are downloaded to a temporary folder while browsing. When you visit a website, all the text, images etc. are downloaded to a temporary folder on your computer and displayed from there. This also helps load the website faster when you revisit it.