Managing Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that enables a website to personalize its offerings in some way. The website downloads the cookie to your hard disk (Internet Explorer stores it in the folder %UserProfile%\Cookies\Low), and then reads the cookie from your hard disk on your subsequent visits to the site. Cookies can be used for a variety of purposes, such as recording logon information, shopping preferences, pages that you have visited, searches that you have performed, and so on. In general, cookies provide benefits to users as well as to web content providers. They make the websites you visit more responsive to your needs and preferences.
Nevertheless, because cookies can provide websites with personal information about you (an e-mail ...
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