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A cookie is an harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The use of a cookie is for the web to be able to remember your visit the next time you visit that page. Although not many people know, cookies have been used for twenty years, when the first web browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.
It is not a virus or a Trojan , not a worm, or spam or spyware, or open pop -up windows.
Cookies usually do not store sensitive information about you, like credit cards or bank data, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. Stored data are often technical, personal preferences, contents customization, etc.
The web server does no associate you, but your web browser. In fact, if you usually browse with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same web with Firefox or Chrome, you will see haow the web does not realize that you are the same person because it’s actually associated to the browser, not to the person.
Own cookies are generated by the page you are visiting, and third party ones are generated by services or external providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
To understand the scope that disabling cookies may have, we show you some examples:
Yes, they can. Not only be removed, but blocked in a general or specific way in a specific domain.
To remove the cookies from a web site you must go to the configuration of your browser and search the ones associated to the domain and remove them.
The following shows how to access a specific cookie in Chrome web browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the version of the browser:
To access the configuration of the cookies in the Internet Explorer browser, follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):
To access the configuration of the cookies in the Firefox browser, follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):
To access the configuration of the cookies in the Safari for OSX browser, follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):
To access the configuration of the cookies in the Safari for iOS browser, follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):
To access the configuration of the cookies in the browser for Android devices, follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):
To access the configuration of the cookies in the browser for Windows Phone devices, follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):
