What are Cookies?
Cookies (engl. "Biscuits") are data that are stored in your Browser between. These come from the web pages accessed, such as Amazon or Google, and include information such as pages visited, E-mail address and your name.
Why do I need Cookies?
The Cookies should help you in Surfing the Internet. If the website already have your log-in data, save, for example, Entering long passwords and user names. In addition, your surfing habits are stored and the operator of the website passed.
Good Cookies: Session Cookies
- Session Cookies are used when Browsing is especially helpful and indispensable. Save your Login data, so that you don't have to log on to password-protected web pages after a few seconds.
- Here, the safety is in the forefront, therefore, of Cookies, for example, the be used Online-Banking automatically.
- The connection is stored the entire session in a Cookie until you close the site or logout. Then the Cookie is automatically removed.
Cookies in Firefox
Evil Cookies: advertising Tracking Cookies
- To belong to the infamous Cookies "Tracking Cookies", which are to provide you with personalized advertising, and permanently stored. They are often called "persistent Cookies".
- You can open a website with advertising banners, place this also a Cookie. So that your surfing is being spied behavior to you with the "best available" display advertising.
- The real goal of the website optimization, however. For example, you can get at Amazon by Cookies personalized product suggestions
Also Amazon uses Cookies
Tip:
Especially on a public computer, you should delete the use of the Internet all Cookies, in order to protect passwords and private data. How this works, we'll show you here, for the most common browsers.
