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What Are Cookies... What Sites Need Cookies To Be Enabled?

  • So i set my cookies to like high... and i noticed that... most sites dont work like yahoo answers, youtube... basically any site i need to log in to view stuff doesnt work to keep a... username... experience... What else needs cookies to work? And what are cookies? And why does some people say they are virus' are they wrong? DO WE REALLY NEED COOKIES?

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    A cookie distinction should be made: "1st party" cookie assets are from the site you ask the browser to 'fetch'. They are usually helpful, usually harmless and are often required to view and interact with the site. It's actually better to keep these oft' visited site cookies, because they save your site settings, preferences, log-in's, 'wish lists', and so on. You may want to exclude them from cleaning with any utilities, like Glary Utilities, CCleaner, or clearing "when browser closes" (a browser setting). This strategy does have certain security implications, which can be convoluted. Analyze your entire threat landscape to make the best judgment. Your browser simultaneously (and unless modified) automatically fetches 3rd party assets: again, anything at all: text, video, audio, tracking cookie, and so on. These components are not on the primary URL address/site, but from remote servers; and are normally associated with advertising. Because there can never be any certainty about what exactly is being returned, you should stop those 3rd party 'assets' from even getting inside your system in the first place; then fall back to removal tactics with a 'scrubber', such as "CCleaner" or "Glary Utilities" (for the less evil 'stuff'); and a malware remover such as "MalwareBytes" http://www.malwarebytes.org/ for the really bad stuff. (See GRC for simple diagrams on how browsers fetch and display 1st and 3rd party 'assets'; https://www.grc.com/cookies/operation.htm Start by getting Firefox as your default browser & use it for everyday surfing; fall back to IE only for "last resort" viewing of substandard websites & Windows updates. The following mods help, but methods (vectors) constantly change. FIREFOX: Tools> Options> Privacy> top-slot, drop menu; tick "Firefox will use custom settings..."> Check 'Accept Cookies from sites' & ►► Un-Check 'Accept 3rd Party cookies' My recommended Firefox Collection, for improved security, and a tad bit of 'appearance' mod's. https://addons.mozilla.org/collections/dunbar-pappy/dunbarpappy/ which includes flash cookie blocker. ►► At minimum get "NoScript" which blocks scripted assets (and tons of leverage vectors) until you specifically allow them. [Bookmark and refer to this page for how it works, and how to use it...very straight forward; http://noscript.net/features#contentblocking IE does not have exceptional "3rd party" blocking or control of anything really, and should not be used for any browsing. Use at your own risk.

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A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site. The state information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user's preferences, shopping cart contents, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data on the user's computer. Cookies cannot be programmed, cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on the host computer.[ However, they can be used by spyware to track user's browsing activities—a major privacy concern that prompted European and US law makers to take action. Cookie data can also be illicitly disclosed by hackers to gain access to a victim's web account.

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A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site.[1] The state information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user's preferences, shopping cart contents, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data on the user's computer. Cookies cannot be programmed, cannot carry viruses, and cannot install malware on the host computer.[2] However, they can be used by spyware to track user's browsing activities—a major privacy concern that prompted European and US law makers to take action.[3][4] Cookie data can also be illicitly disclosed by hackers to gain access to a victim's web account.[5] For more. visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie Say thanks if it is helpful to you. Thanks

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Cookies store data on your computer and allow certain sites to access that info. So yes if a suspicious site were to make a virus in the form of a cookie then it could harm the computer. I can't really think of anything else that uses cookies at the, moment sorry.

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