Cookies
Cookies are strings of text that are saved on a computer by browsing different web pages. They allow small bits of information to be stored. Cookies are used to save passwords and shopping lists among other things. They are also used to track demographics and browsing habits. This information is sent to the user's computer and then uploaded to web databases without the user's approval. Cookies represent another avenue (besides transmission of the IP address) by which a user's anonymity can potentially be breached.
Read more about this topic: Anonymous Web Browsing
Famous quotes containing the word cookies:
“Warning: fortune cookies don’t care what happens to you.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“O how terrible it must be for a young man—
seated before a family and the family thinking
We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)