Reject that cookie please

Chocolate cookies are not involved in this biz, though they look delightful. Instead, getting the cookies tech’d –up would be the point, as in web cookies, or browser cookies, or tracking cookies, whatever you call it.

Unflavored cookies

Web cookies are minute infos saved by a web browser to the computer of a user. These non-edible cookies are stored with data like user preferences on websites, online shopping stuffs, and user identification. Ahuh, cookies can remember specific user information.

Nope. Cookies are not used for spamming and can not generate pop-ups. Cookies are viruses that infect hard disks, definitely not! These could not even touch any document or file in your computer.

The heck that cookie is! But, a cookie helps you in smaller ways like when you open your account in a certain site, and then when you decided to open another web, your username will be filled up automatically in the log-in tab. That’s a cookie power!

                                                                                                                     

How does it work? Let’s do it simple: When you open a particular web site, its web server will send cookie to your browser. The cookie will now gather such infos about the user. The browser will then send back the collected data to the server.

Allow or Reject?

One good thing about cookies is that you can enable or disable them anytime you want. Yet some web sites do not open when cookies are disabled, most likely to online shopping sites.

Some browsers warn the user before a site is being opened if he prefers to enable cookies. A pop-up will appear, and the user can allow or reject the cookie right away. A user can also set up the cookie setting of the browser by the following steps. Here are some:

Mozilla Firefox

•  Tools
• Options
• Privacy
• Uncheck the 'accept cookies from sites' box
• Click OK

 

  Internet Explorer 

• Tools
• Internet options
• Privacy
• Adjust the slider upward to block all cookies
• Click OK

 


 Opera

• Tools
• Preferences
• Advanced
• Cookies
• Click the 'never accept cookies'
• Click OK

There are also cookies that have expiration, which are called persistent cookies. They expire in a certain period of time. If a cookie is not persistent, it will be deleted automatically when a user closes the browser.