Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that a website may write to your hard drive. Think of it as being something like a Chinese fortune cookie, only with your information on the slip of paper. It contains information such as when you visited certain webpages, what you clicked on, and possibly even your username and password. Using the information in a cookie, web browsers may allow a user to bypass the logon or other procedures in a subsequent visit to a same webpage.
The term cookies, which is used to represent web cookies, internet cookies, and browser cookies, began as magic cookies, which was a data file of information passed to and from applications unchanged. Cookies were initially used to retain information between visits to a website, ...
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