13 lines
1.2 KiB
HTML
13 lines
1.2 KiB
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, stored in binary, 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 strong security and the ID of each one must be unfathomably
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difficult to find without permission, to reduce the risk of hacking. Cookies are stored on the computer, as opposed to the website.
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Because both HTTP and HTTPS don't transmit user data, none of the websites you visit know who you are. Therefore, whenever you
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visit a webpage, it reads the cookies it stored on your computer last time you visited it, in order to find out information like your email address.
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Many people are against cookies, due to privacy concerns; under new GDPR regulations, all end users in Europe must now be notified of
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cookie use on each website they visit (if the website uses cookies). Many sites also give an option to refuse cookies.
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</p>
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