What are cookies? Often meeting this word in browser settings or on the global Internet, many people don’t even know what it is all about. Ordinary PC users do not always need this information. However, if it comes to
configuring the browser and its actual operation, then it is difficult to do without understanding what cookies are. In this article, we will tell you more about this.
Definition of the term
What are cookies? This is information that is stored on your personal computer and contains data about your visits to web resources. That is, all the sites that you go to and information about them are stored in special files on your computer. The next time you visit a web resource, your browser will turn to cookies and transfer all information from them to the current page in order to save the settings that you yourself made for the previous session.
What do cookies contain?
- Information needed for authorization on sites. It is about login and password. For example, you have registered on the site. When you visit it again, the system will automatically enter the identification data in the required fields, thus
protecting you from unnecessary manipulations. Cookies never passwords information to third parties. Stored on your computer, at the time of connecting to the server, they send data about the first session.
- Site settings. There are web portals that allow users to change the interface or some parameters of a resource. For example, changing the background of the site or the presence of widgets. Selecting a specific topic once, each time you will see only it.
- Setting up a search engine. You can independently set the parameters of in which city (country) information will be searched for, how it will be displayed.
Setting cookies in the browser
Since the information about the sites you visit does not do any harm to your computer and does not threaten personal data, but only allow you to reduce the time on your next visit, you do not need to turn them off. Of course, if your goal is to hide
the fact of being on certain web resources, it’s better to turn them off or clean them more often. All users are also advised to periodically clean them. It is needed in order to rid the browser memory of outdated information and to avoid clutter. Cleaning is as follows:
- In the Opera browser, select the "Service" section, then the "Settings" sub-item, then "Advanced". After that, click on cookies and delete the information. Please note that you can select specific files for deletion without touching the ones you need.
- In the Mozilla web client, cookies are located in the Tools section. To proceed with the deletion, select the “delete personal data” section. We mark the desired item and make the destruction.
- Yandex cookies can be cleared in the same way as in the Google Chrom application. We go to the "Settings" section. Next, select the “Advanced” subsection and delete files.
We examined what cookies are. We hope that the information received will be useful to you.