Cookies....what are they/Can u achieve anything via internet with out enabling them?

A.secuirty disabler


B.effective marketing tool


C.evidence


a


that may be used for what??????????and how long

Cookies....what are they/Can u achieve anything via internet with out enabling them?
Cookies are small text files that allow a website to store information about your usage of the site. They can be used to identify you as a unique user so they can accumulate information about how many unique users visit the site. They also can be used to store preferences you set on a site so that the next time you return they can display the windows the way you customized them. When you visit a site, your browser will offer up some information about your PC - Computer name, ISP, your IP address and the site you last visited. This information can also be used as evidence in some cases, and is not stored in a cookie.





Ad companies can also store a cookie on your PC from a small 1 pixel display on someone elses website. These are third-party cookies, and you can disable these separately in your browser. These cookies can track where an individual PC goes on various internet sites to control the ads that are displayed, but only if that ad company has an agreement with the site.





You can delete the cookies on your PC - usually in c:windows\cookies, or from your internet browser in most cases.





As far as evidence, the cookies stored on your machine can be deleted, but if you truly want to erase them you would need to run some type of disk-erasor on them.





An option available to ensure anonymity would be to use a tool bar from http://www.anonymizer.com/ which allows you to surf without identifying yourself.
Reply:Cookies are files that contain bits of information about you. The cookies can have almost anything written to them and then read from somewhere else. You cannot do much on the internet without cookies.. at least on sites you have to log in to. When you sign into yahoo, your computer gets a cookie saying "this user with this ID is logged in on this computer" and that lets you view the pages that you must be logged in to view.





If you are concerned with cookies being on your computer, you can manually delete them from


C:/documents and settings/yourusername/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files


and deleting everything in there.





(when typing that in replace all / with \ because Yahoo has trouble displaying \)