A\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0is a\u00a0harmless<\/strong>\u00a0text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The purpose of the\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0is for the website to be able to remember your visit when you return to that page. Although many people do not know it,\u00a0cookies<\/em>\u00a0have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.<\/p>\r\n It is not a virus, Trojan, worm, spam, spyware or pop-up.<\/p>\r\n Cookies<\/em>\u00a0do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photographs, your ID card or personal information, etc. The data they do store is of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalisation of content, etc.<\/p>\r\n The web server does not associate you as a person but your web browser. In fact, if you usually browse with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same website with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realise that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.<\/p>\r\n First-party cookies<\/em>\u00a0are those generated by the website you are visiting and\u00a0third-party<\/em>\u00a0cookies are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.<\/p>\r\n To help you understand the extent to which\u00a0cookies<\/em>\u00a0can be disabled, here are some examples:<\/p>\r\n Yes, not only delete, but also block, either generally or for a specific domain.<\/p>\r\n To delete\u00a0cookies<\/em>\u00a0from a website, you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for the cookies associated with the domain in question and delete them.<\/p>\r\n Here’s how to access a particular\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0in the\u00a0Chrome<\/strong>\u00a0browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on your browser version:<\/p>\r\n To access your\u00a0Internet Explorer<\/strong>\u00a0browser’s\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0settings, follow these steps (they may vary depending on your browser version):<\/p>\r\n To access your\u00a0Firefox<\/strong>\u00a0browser’s\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0settings follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):<\/p>\r\n To access the\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0settings in the\u00a0Safari<\/strong>\u00a0browser\u00a0for OSX<\/strong>\u00a0follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):<\/p>\r\n To access the\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0settings in the\u00a0Safari<\/strong>\u00a0browser\u00a0for iOS<\/strong>\u00a0follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):<\/p>\r\n To access your browser\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0settings for\u00a0Android<\/strong>\u00a0devices follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):<\/p>\r\n To access your browser\u00a0cookie<\/em>\u00a0settings for\u00a0Windows Phone<\/strong>\u00a0devices follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):<\/p>\r\n MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES \u00a0 What is a cookie? A\u00a0cookie\u00a0is a\u00a0harmless\u00a0text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The purpose of the\u00a0cookie\u00a0is for the website to be able to remember your visit when you return to that page. Although many people do not know it,\u00a0cookies\u00a0have been used for 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainhoatoyos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is NOT a cookie?<\/h3>\r\n
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