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    what are cookies

    0  Views: 455 Answers: 1 Posted: 12 years ago

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    A web/browsing cookie is usually is a small data that is sent to a website's user's computer from that website, and is stored in that user's browser while he is browsing that website.

    jhharlan

    I've always wondered, still don't understand them. Are they good or bad?
    jenp

    Cookies are evil.
    jenp

    Just kidding. The original purpose of cookies is to allow users that visit sites repeatedly to be identified as such, and not to have to subscribe to sites they visit often more than once.
    jhharlan

    I agree on the evilness of cookies.....


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