All of you about internet cookies may have seen anywhere or not. In any
Internet browser, you may see options such as Allow Cookies or Delete
cookies or Disabled cookies. But what does that mean? How it works or
what its advantages or disadvantages. Before entering into a detailed
discussion, keep in mind that these cookies are not eating cookies
Let's first talk about what these cookies really are. Cookies are actually
some files that are stored in your Internet browser's cache memory. Now
where these files come from? Whenever you enter a cookie enabled website
and if your cookie is also enabled on your internet browser, that website will
drop cookies into your browser cache. Cookies are commonly used to
improve your Internet service standards. If you went to an e-commerce site
like Amazon or eBay, or went to a ticket or hotel booking site, these sites
would put their cookies in your internet browser. Now after installing this
cookie your browser will send information continuously to that sites about
what product you searched for more or look for a long time, and for less
time.So that If you visit that website later the website then can show you
the recommended results of that products. Think you were searching for a
brand watch in Amazon last time, and cookies have gone to Amazon. Now
whenever you visit to Amazon you will be shown more like this. You will be
shown more products of the same price range also.
Internet cookies help them to improve the quality of service their for you as
per your visit and activity on it. So that's a good thing. You might have
gone to a website for the first time or made some settings, with the help of
those cookies you will be able to get all the things like before. Again, you
may be logging in to a website using your ID and password, if you have
saved your ID and password in your browser, it is different, but if the
website is enabled by cookies and you accidentally close that window, with
the help of a cookie will get your ID and password again.
In the meantime, good topics were found on internet cookies and we
learned how these cookies improve our internet service standards. But some
people think that cookies are stealing their personal data and internet
activity data. If you think so, you can disable cookies. But in reality, some
of the fears of these people are absolutely right.And the most horrible
things are third party cookies.
Friends, you may have mentioned that many types of ads are available on
many websites. Some of them are popup where on clicking 8 to 10 browser
windows are opened automatically. Now the opened websites in those
automated windows plan third-party cookies in your browser, all your online
security could be destroyed. The cookies that are in your browser are not
encrypted. This means, Internet cookies stored on your computer are in
standard form, so there is no encryption. Although your ID passwords or
other details are not stored in cookies but your login session is saved in the
cookie. If it is a trusted website then it conveys only certain data from your
internet browser from those cookies. But third-party cookies are not
delivered data just from one site, but all data you have accessed will be
delivered to a third party website. Also stole all your online login sessions.
So what the online session is, when you login by entering your ID and
password on any website, a login session is created in that website. And
this session keeps the website in your browser cookies. If someone stole
your cookie from your browser, then he will not need any other ID or
password to login to that website. Sometime, when you do not logout after
logging in to your Facebook account, it does not require any additional ID
and password in the next time. You are automatically logged in there.
Because Facebook keeps your login session saved in Internet cookies in
your browser.In addition, if you have entered your email address, credit card
number, your address etc. in any login session, then information can also be
taken by third party cookies easily.
Hopefully you know everything about internet cookies, how it works and its
benefits and maladies. It's good to have cookies coming from a trusted
website, but blocking cookies from malicious websites or popup add-ons will
be a good fit for your safety.