A cookie<\/em> is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The usefulness of the cookie is that the website is able to remember your visit when you return to navigate through that page. Although many people do not know this, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.<\/p>\n It's not a virus, or a Trojan horse, or a worm, or spam, or spyware, or pop-up windows.<\/p>\n Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID card or personal information, etc. The data they store are technical, personal preferences, content customization, etc.<\/p>\n The web server does not associate you as a person but rather with your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse Internet Explorer and try browsing the same web with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web doesn't realize that you are the same person because you are actually associating the browser, not the person.<\/p>\n The own cookies<\/em> are those generated by the page you are visiting and the of third<\/em> are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc..<\/p>\n To help you understand the extent to which you can disable cookies<\/em>, here are a few examples:<\/p>\n Yeah. Yeah. Not only remove, but also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.<\/p>\n To delete cookies<\/em> from a website you must go to the configuration of your browser and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to delete them.<\/p>\n Here's how to access a specific cookie Chrome<\/b> browser cookie . Note: These steps may vary depending on the browser version:<\/b><\/p>\n To access the configuration of cookies<\/em> of the browser Internet Explorer<\/b> follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n To access the configuration of cookies<\/em> of the browser Firefox<\/b> follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n To access the configuration of cookies<\/em> of the browser Safari for OSX<\/b> follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n To access the configuration of cookies<\/em> of the browser Safari for iOS<\/b> follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n To access the configuration of cookies<\/em> of the device browser Android<\/b> follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n To access the configuration of cookies<\/em> of the device browser Windows Phone<\/b> follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n What is a cookie? A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The usefulness of the cookie is that the website is able to remember your visit when you return to navigate through that page. Although many people do not know this, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared. What IS NOT a cookie? It’s not a virus, or a Trojan horse, or a worm, or spam, or spyware, or pop-up windows. What information does a cookie store? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat IS NOT a cookie?<\/h2>\n
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What kind of cookies<\/em> are there?<\/h2>\n
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Configuration of cookies<\/em> for the most popular browsers<\/h2>\n
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