What is a cookie?

What is a cookie?

In the literal sense, cookies are an English word, it has a possible Chinese name "cookie", in English Chinese meaning is "cookie".

In general, we ask what cookies are, not the literal meaning, because cookies are a professional noun in a computer.

Professional said, cookies refers to the server temporarily stored in your computer TXT format text file data, mainly used for network server to identify computer use. Popular brushes, cookies are a technology that allows a Web server to store small amounts of data on a client's hard disk or memory, or to read data from a client's hard disk. Cookies are when you browse a website, a very small text file placed on your hard drive by a Web server that records your user ID, password, browsed pages, time of stay, etc., so that the next time you log in, you will be prompted to enter the username, or even the password.

Cookies can be easily accessible to users, but there is also a risk of leaking privacy. For example, when browsing the web, Cookies record some of the information and information you have entered, such as before, the major media have exposed the major shopping sites and some of the advertising alliance will be peeping the user's browser record privacy, so as to accurately recommend some relevant advertising products.

A lot of careful friends will also find such a problem: Many websites display ads are the things we have recently searched. The most effective way to get rid of this problem is to frequently delete the cookie browser record.

Cookies file is silently with the browser into our local hard drive, when we browse a site, the site is likely to record our privacy of the cookies file uploaded to the local hard drive. So how do we prevent cookies from leaking our privacy? In fact, we can use the browser settings do not allow the computer to receive cookies file. The method is as follows:

The first step: Enter the system to open IE browser.

Step Two: Open the Internet Settings window through the Tools->internet option in the menu bar.

Step three: Locate the Privacy tab and adjust the Set sliding button to the highest, which will block cookies from all Web sites, and the existing cookie files on your computer will not be readable by the Web site.

Step Fourth: After we finalize the setup, no site will force the cookie file into our computer. So our privacy is no longer leaking. To prevent our privacy from leaking, you can also delete cookies.