What are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text that can be transmitted to the user’s computer by web servers. They are recorded to particular files and later can be transmitted back to the server.

What can I do by means of Cookies?

In themselves, Cookies can do nothing; they are just certain text items. However, server can read off the information from Cookies and basing on its analysis, perform these or those actions. For example, using an authorized access to the WWW Cookies keep your login and password during the session. So the user does not have to type them in again inquiring any password protected document.

Functions of ordering in online stores are often created using Cookies. Particularly in the biggest online bookshop Amazon Books a virtual shopping cart is established like in an ordinary supermarket, where the server records the information about every ordered book.

How do Cookies intrude into my privacy?

The most popular area where Cookies are used is advertising business. Nowadays advertisers want the exact effectiveness evaluation of their expenses. Cookies are used for the same purposes. The point is that some systems have ability by means of Cookies to backtrace surfer’s travel form one site to another. Almost every site has a counter of attendance. These counters apply to their main server to transmit Cookies when a surfer visits different sites. Incidentally, using Cookies this way infringes human rights and therefore last year in EU Parliament an issue of this technology prohibition was considered very seriously. But for the time being technology works and is not restricted.

The other problem you can see in the image is Cookie Files names. Anyone who opens the folder they are kept in can easily see what sites you visited.

How to delete Cookies?

You can easily delete Cookies using Clean Space software. What’s more, you can delete only improper Cookies and Cookies you need for your work with email or online stores (Cookies needed to memorize your login and password) can be stored with the help of Cookie Files Manager.

Get more answers!

Back to questions list