Whats a cookie in the web?
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Ok I replied with this:
“A list of what you’ve done on a site” and it was removed as being in breach of the rules by the automod.
So I guess I need to provide more, but honestly if my 4 year old niece asked that’s exactly what I would say to her.
When you go to a website and do anything, the website sends a summary of what you have done back to your computer to be stored. It’s called a cookie and it’s a list of what you have done.
Websites can arbitrarily decide how in depth it goes, so for example if you spent 10 minutes on an article about dogs and 10 seconds on an article about cats it could record that in the cookie.
The next time you go to that website, your computer sends the cookie back to the website so the website knows who you are and what you did the last time you were there.
In the above example, the website would know you spent more time reading about dogs so could show you more articles on dogs than cats.
Cookies are often used to target advertising accurately, and to save login details.
Basically… cookies are a list of what you’ve done on a site!
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