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What are Internet Cookies?
Hi I’m Stacey Reed and in this Butterscotch tutorial we’re going to discuss internet cookies, what they are, where they’re stored and how to get rid of the ones you don’t really need. When you visit a website like Tucows and you fill out a form or something like and see you’re signing up for an account, the server will send out a little parcel of text to your browser which will be stored on your computer. This little text file is called a cookie and the information that contains will be sent back to the website if you ever visit again.
This can come in really handy for the times when you want the site to remember certain information about you like your password and log in or a weather site like this can remember you zip codes so you don’t have to enter that text over and over every time you visit. They can also store information like which banners you’ve clicked on or which items you’d purchase from an online store.
There are really quite valuable for a number of reasons and cookies are harmless text files. Your computer will only send your cookie info back to the same web server that created it. They don’t transmit viruses or Trojans and they can’t be used to get data or to view data stored on your hard drive. If you want to see your saved cookies in Firefox, click on tools, go to options and then choose privacy. Under here we’re going to click this button that shows cookies and here we can see a list of all of the cookies that have been safe to our computer and we can go ahead and click on the folder and see the different cookies that have been saved.
We can come down here and remove those cookies or if we wanted to remove all of the cookies at once we can just click this button before closing out. All browsers saved this text files so refer to their help files if they want to find out more about managing them, how that’s the word on internet cookies. I'm Stacey Reed with Butterscotch signing out. Bye for now.
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