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A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The purpose of a cookie is to enable the website to remember your visit when you return to that page. Although many people don’t know this, cookies have been used for 20 years, since the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.<\/p>\n
It is not a virus, a Trojan, a worm, spam, spyware, or a pop-up window.<\/p>\n
Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they do store is of a technical nature, personal preferences, content customization, etc.<\/p>\n
The web server doesn’t associate you as a person, but rather with your web browser. In fact, if you normally browse with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same website with Firefox or Chrome, you’ll see that the website doesn’t recognize you as the same person because it’s actually associating the browser, not the person.<\/p>\n
First-party cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting, while third-party cookies are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.<\/p>\n
To help you understand the potential implications of disabling cookies, here are some examples:<\/p>\n
Yes. Not only delete, but also block, either generally or specifically for a specific domain.<\/p>\n
To delete cookies from a website, you must go to your browser settings. There you can search for the ones associated with the domain in question and delete them.<\/p>\n
Here’s how to access a specific cookie in your Chrome browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on your browser version:<\/p>\n
To access the cookie settings in your Internet Explorer browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n
To access the cookie settings in the Firefox browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n
To access the cookie settings of the Safari browser for OSX follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n
To access the cookie settings in the Safari browser for iOS, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n
To access the browser cookie settings for Android devices, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n
To access the browser cookie settings for Windows Phone devices, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n
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