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explain "cookies" to me please
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04/03/24 05:18 PM
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Whenever we click on any website, it asks about cookies. What exactly does this mean? what should you choose? Thanks
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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04/03/24 05:30 PM
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PMK
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Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. They help that website remember information about your visit, which can both make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you.
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/03/24 05:30 PM
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DannyB
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No computer genius here, but my interpretation of computer cookies is that they do the same thing to computers as they do to humans. They make them fat, clog them up, and slow them down.
Last edited by DannyB; 04/03/24 05:51 PM.
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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04/03/24 05:58 PM
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If you accept too many cookies on your computer, you can fix it by running a Mounjaro disk
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
[Re: ntxtrapper]
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04/03/24 07:32 PM
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Buzzsaw
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If you accept too many cookies on your computer, you can fix it by running a Mounjaro disk
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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04/03/24 07:50 PM
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you can clear browsing history including cookies from time to time to help not clog up your computer
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/03/24 07:58 PM
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syncerus
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Your browser uses a protocol called http to communicate with a web server. http is a stateless protocol which means each communication has no memory of previous communications. This creates many inconveniences and inefficiencies when it would be useful to carry over information, like your username, between exchanges. Cookies are as simple mechanism to proved state or context between communication sequences. They are small text blocks that browsers, web pages and servers can use to communicate back and forth.
Does that make sense? It's a very simplified version of what's happening, but it hits the high points.
Last edited by syncerus; 04/03/24 08:00 PM. Reason: browsers added
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/03/24 08:04 PM
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Texas Dan
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I take it cookies are used to determine what ads and news articles appear on various webpages that I visit. If so, they can be used to identify that I'm a gun owning conservative, correct?
Last edited by Texas Dan; 04/03/24 08:08 PM.
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/03/24 08:28 PM
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Cookies can also work like a digital fingerprintt for forum mod sleuths.
To be determined
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/03/24 10:12 PM
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Some women also refer to a cookie as a part of their anatomy.......
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/04/24 01:27 AM
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Dave Davidson
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From a business standpoint, it tells there’s what type of sites I frequent. It’s a marketing deal. From tracking “they” know that I frequent THF, TFF, Pond Boss and financial sites. I get spam based on those records. I understand it. It’s a business marketing tool.
Like the most famous line in the movie “The Godfather”; “Nothing personal. It’s just business.”.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/04/24 01:31 AM
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Choose Incognito or InPrivate Window to avoid tracking between browsing sessions. "none of your browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms are saved on your device. "
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
[Re: Texas Dan]
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04/04/24 10:03 PM
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syncerus
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I take it cookies are used to determine what ads and news articles appear on various webpages that I visit. If so, they can be used to identify that I'm a gun owning conservative, correct? Not exactly. Cookies are simply small data stores. The exact data is whatever the cookie writer finds useful. For most web sites, that might be your user name, and similar information. For a web ad network it will be a unique identifier and possibly behavioral information intended to predict to which ads you will watch or click. Like any useful mechanism, it can be abused, but there’s nothing inherently nefarious about cookies.
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/04/24 10:27 PM
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/04/24 11:05 PM
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Cookies n Cream? That’s a long drive but I can recommend a few closer to home if you’d like? They can explain it weally weally guuuud
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Re: explain "cookies" to me please
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04/04/24 11:25 PM
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It really doesn't matter if you say/click "no."
These sites all remember us/our computers, and they stalk us!
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