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Cookies are data files that are sometimes sent by web sites/servers to a visitor's web browser. Cookies can contain any kind of information, even personal or sensitive data, which is why privacy groups are up-in-arms over them.
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Session cookies, persistent cookies and how to enable/ disable/ manage software cookies.
Learn how to enable and disable browser cookies in Internet Explorer and Netscape.
A collection of cookies related standards, news, and resources, from a privacy perspective. By Electronic Privacy Information Center.
A web browser extension that deletes cookies as soon as the tab closes, domain changes, browser restart, or a combination of those events.
Learn exactly how Internet cookies work, see an example, and understand what all the media uproar is about.
More than half of the internet's top websites use a little known capability of Adobe's Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them. Super Cookies. (August 10, 2009)
A web browser extension that deletes cookies as soon as the tab closes, domain changes, browser restart, or a combination of those events.
Session cookies, persistent cookies and how to enable/ disable/ manage software cookies.
Learn how to enable and disable browser cookies in Internet Explorer and Netscape.
A collection of cookies related standards, news, and resources, from a privacy perspective. By Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Learn exactly how Internet cookies work, see an example, and understand what all the media uproar is about.
More than half of the internet's top websites use a little known capability of Adobe's Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them. Super Cookies. (August 10, 2009)
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