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What’s a Cookie?
A
cookie
is
simply
a
technology
for
remembering something about you.
Without
cookies,
a
website
loses
its
memory
every
time
you
visit.
Once
you
visit
a
new
page,
it
doesn’t
remember
who
you
are.
Now
this
can
be
a
good
and
a
bad
thing.
Without
any
memory,
a
website
can’t
do
a
lot
of
stuff.
It
can’t
let
you
log
in,
because
it
forgets
who
you
are.
It
can’t
let
you
buy
anything,
because
it
forgets
what
you’re
buying.
But
it
also
means
it
can’t
track
you.
Some
websites
use
cookies
to
remember
what
you
do
on
their
website,
and
to
target
ads
at
you.
And
some
of
those
websites
share
their
cookies
so
that
ads
on
one
website
know
what
you
liked
on
another.
This
has
scared
a
lot
of
people,
and
that’s
why
we
say
-
we
will
NEVER,
EVER,
use
cookies
to
store,
trade,
sell,
or
otherwise
make
available
our
users’
preferences
to
ANYONE.
PERIOD
.
Cookies
aren’t
automatically
good
or
bad,
but
it’s
worth
understanding
what
you
can
do
about
them.
You
can
turn
them
off
completely,
however,
many
websites
simply
won’t work without them.
A
better
option
would
be
to
turn
off
3rd
party
cookies,
which
will
stop
most
websites
from
sharing
information
about
you.
Some
browsers do this automatically.
Lastly,
well
over
90%
of
websites
use
cookies.
Cookies
aren’t
automatically
good
or
bad,
but
it’s
worth
understanding
what
you can do about them.