11 lines
895 B
HTML
11 lines
895 B
HTML
<!-- Reading School 2018, HTML page by Matthew Grove, Year 10 -->
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<h2>Cookies</h2>
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<p>
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Cookies are not, unfortunately, the treats made of dough. They are, in fact, small text files, usually one-line long, which store relevant
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information about websites visited by a computer. This might include a selected language, or ad preferences. Some websites even use
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cookies to store passwords that are set to ‘remember’. Thus cookies need a lot of security and the id of each one must be unfathomably
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difficult to find without permission so that hackers cannot find someone’s cookie. Cookies are stored on the computer, as opposed to
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the website. Whenever you visit a browser, the browser accesses the relevant cookie and your information is there. Also, whenever a
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website uses cookies, they must announce the fact and give an option to refuse them, for data privacy/security reasons.
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</p>
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