Have you ever wondered about cookies?

 

Remember the first time you were offered a cookie from a website?

If you are new to the Internet it was a surprise, the website wanted to put a cookie on your computer.

• Maybe your first thoughts were, "What is a cookie?

• Should I accept it or reject it? "

Some sites never asked to give you a cookie...

Other sites have required your consent to cookies for information, reading articles, searching their products, or getting free downloads.

According to Netscape, "Cookies are a general mechanism that server-side communications (such as CGI scripts) can use to store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection."

Most cookies are set once and then disappear when the browser is turned off.

The other type of cookie, a permanent cookie, is set and remains on your hard drive until cookie space is full or the time character on it expires.

• The Site has access to any information you provide

• including information such as your IP address

• browser type, page you referred to its site

• as well as forms you fill in) without using any cookies at all.

Therefore, it is more important to know the site's privacy policies than to worry about the use of cookies.

Cookies :

 are small pieces of information collected from you or your computer by a web server and stored in your computer, ready to be accessed in the future by server or website.

Cookies are included in streaming HTML information Back and forth between your computer and websites servers

What is the purpose of cookies?

They allow user customization of web information. For example, cookies are used to personalize websites. It allows you to participate in surveys and contests... And make sure to participate only once... And to store shopping lists for items you select while browsing the list of products or the virtual shopping center.

Some sites require you to accept cookies to access their information, tips or articles from their website.

Cookies :

use the specific information you prefer. This specific information is transferred through your web server to your computer's cookie so that the information is available for later access by itself and other servers.

In most cases, storing personal information in your cookie does not go unnoticed, as well as accessing it.

Web servers automatically get access to related cookies when you create a connection with them.

Cookies are based on a two-stage process.

Cookie is stored in your computer sometimes without Your consent or knowledge, but... In Netscape browsers, you can go to preferences and adjust the browser to alert you before accepting a cookie. In Internet Explorer, follow the list of tools/internet/security options to select cookie preferences. It's your choice.

For example... 

Some web pages are customizable so you can select the categories that matter to you from the web page.

The web server then creates a cookie that represents a text series containing your preferences, and puts this small text file of the cookie in your computer.

If your web browser is set to receive cookies

The text of the cookie is stored on your computer in a file called the cookie.

This happens without your consent unless you adjust your browser to let you know before accepting the cookie and before storing it on your computer.

Would you like to see your cookie? On Macintosh, you can search for "magiccookie" on hard drive

• On the computer, find the file "cookies.txt" on the hard drive.

• Each cookie is a small text file. After finding the file

• you can open it by double-clicking it.

• Looking at files doesn't tell you much unless you dig deeper into writing

• and cookie setting.

Remember... The site knows only the information you entered, the browser type and the Internet service provider.

Cookies :

 are neither good nor bad, they can provide you with convenience and perform useful functions on the web.

You can delete the cookie file entirely on your computer if cookies matter to you. Just find the file and delete it. Then set your browser preferences over not accepting cookies.

1. "I have always accepted cookies and I have not noticed any Bad effects.
2. So my personal preference is to keep accepting it.
3. Now that's your choice!

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