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Tech Tip : How Do Browser Cookies Work? by Lordsurh: 2:22pm On Dec 14, 2016


Browser Cookies are commonly used on the internet.

If you’ve used the internet so well, you should be familiar with the term, Browser cookies. But not everyone understand what this piece of technology do and how it help us surf the web efficiently. This article is aimed to helped us fully understand why cookies are important part of the internet.

The world started paying attention to cookies in the early 21st century due to so many privacy concerns that raged the world. The European Union started enforcing websites to explain the use of cookies to website visitors, that is why you see popups like “Our website uses cookie…”. Nevertheless, cookies are very important browser features that can assist us in navigating the web easily, as they assist sites in providing better user experience to visitors. If you decide to switch off cookies on your browser, you won’t be able to log-in automatically to your favorite websites as cookies are used to store those log-in details on your device.

Browser cookies are good technologies, but increase in hacks around the world has placed so many fair questions on the technology.

What are Browser Cookies?

Cookies are small text files specific to browsers, that are usually stored on user’s computer. Cookies used in Firefox are unique and can’t be used for Chrome or IE. They are used to save important information about a visitor to a webpage, and to examine users behavior on the website.

Who said my browser needs to eat cookies to survive?

Read more : [url]smartgeek.com.ng/2016/12/13/browser-cookies-works/[/url]

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