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“Members Helping Members” Volume 36 Issue 01
Let’s talk about cookies
By Joe Issac, Tech Talk, Central Kentucky Computer Society
December 2018 issue, CKCS Newsletter
www.ckcs.org
joeisaac1234 (at) gmail.com
NO, NOT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES -- I’M TALKING
ABOUT BROWSER COOKIES: Browser cookies are good, they
make life easier and don't take up much space.
First, let’s start with what cookies are. Cookies are simple text
files that are created when you open a website. They help users
navigate websites and perform certain functions. Cookies are
used when you tell a website to “remember me,” or when you
log onto a message board, play online games, and a bunch of
other things. A cookie allows you to log onto a website without
having to enter your email and password every time. They can
only be read by the site that creates it.
The main purpose of a cookie is to identify users and possibly prepare customized Web pages
or to save site login information for you.
They make surfing the web more seamless, and help websites operate more profitably and
with greater efficiency. They record which pages you viewed, and how long the visitor stays
and can help you return to a place you visited.
Cookies may store street addresses, city and zips, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. which
allows you to enter those with a single click and are used by web servers to know whether the
user is logged in or not, and to which account they are logged in, like your bank or stock bro-
ker.
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