What are cookies on your computer?

Answer 1

Cookies are tiny pieces of data used to store information about websites you've been to, ie. saved username and password, automatic login to a forum, progress in an online game. They are very difficult to hack and malicious cookies are very rare. For optimum enjoyment of web browsing, my personal recommendation would be to enable them.

Answer 2

Temporary but sensitive files that are stored in your computer system, either to hold your data, or your request as a token.

Cookies are used in internet browsing. The session is maintained in the cookies.

Because internet browsing sessions are 'stateless', a web server has a problem knowing where you have been previously and what preferences you have selected as you browse from page to page through a web site. To store the information, the server asks the web browser to save information into a small text file on your hard drive, which can be read by the server on the next page you load. They also allow the server to 'remember' you next time you go to the site.

Cookies are intended to be only read by the particular server that wrote them, and do not contain any information about you that you hadn't entered in the process of browsing the website.

http://www.computer-answers.ca/2012/computer-questions/windows-questions/q-my-computer-says-it-has-cookies-is-that-bad/

Answer 3

Small text files of about 4 kilobyte which can be read and written to by web sites. They are used for storing information. Some cookies may contain a unique code which a web site stores so it can recognize you when you return to a web site. This can be used to track your browsing behavior. Though, generally cookies are harmless and often needed (for example to log in to web sites).

Answer 4

they are like mini minifications that change how your internet does things ex (Google has a cookie that lets you change your safesearch restriction)