10-14-2020 , 12:38 PM
Quote:Both cookies and browsing history are used to improve your Internet browsing experience. It is advisable for you to also know exactly what cookies and browsing history are. Removing tracking cookies on Windows 10 and your Android phone helps you to protect your privacy, free up space on your PC, and increase your computers speed performance.
First, let’s take a look at what browser (tracking) cookies are:While surfing the Internet, your browser will “eat” a lot of cookies and store your browsing history. That’s why it’s important to know what role they play in your browsing experience.Cookies (also called HTTP cookies, browser cookies, or web cookies) are small files that are created on your computer by a website the first time you visit it and are used to identify you to make browsing said website more convenient and consistent. This is achieved by recording information about you, your preferences, and activities. Examples are remembering what data you have entered in various form fields (name, user name, password, e-mail address, street address, city, country, etc.), what pages you have visited, what links you have clicked, what settings you have made, and so on. As you have probably deduced from the above, the way websites remember you and keep you logged in your profile is via cookies. Ever wondered how online stores remember what items you added to your shopping cart, or how that website remembers to use dark mode so you don’t have to enable it every time you visit, yes, it’s them cookies again.Bad usage of cookies:Unfortunately, the use of tracking cookies on Windows 10 and Android phone is not always beneficial for the user. There are some bad sides of cookie usage by websites that can harm your privacy.When you visit a website, if it features content from another, completely different website (e.g. advertisement), a so-called 3rd party cookie is created by the external banner or ad that is used to track you. If you visit a different website that uses the same ad provider, yet another 3rd party cookie is created. So on, and so forth. That way the ad provider can build an individual profile for you and your browsing habits, which can then be used to target you with ads tailored to you.Let’s illustrate this: you open Google, search for black cars, and open the first result. That creates a cookie. After that, you open another of the Google results, that creates also another cookie. The advertisement provider can find a pattern and start to display ads related to cars on any website that you visit. The ads can be even more specific, like for example only for new or used cars, or only for certain car manufacturers.Tracking is of course not limited to search queries you have made around the Internet. The same method applies to any other activity that you engage in. The use of this can be to create a profile of what your personality and interests are. Some networks go beyond serving ads, and actually, sell the aggregated data (including yours of course) to any company that is willing to pay.
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