What is a cookie?
A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The usefulness of the cookie is that the web is able to remember your visit when you return to browse this page. Although many people do not know it, the cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.
What is not a cookie?
It is not a virus, nor a trojan, nor a worm, nor spam, nor spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.
What information stores cookie?
The cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they save are of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalization of content, etc.
The web server does not associate you as a person but your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse with Internet Explorer and try to browse the same website with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.
What kind of cookies exist?
- Cookies techniques: They are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous and registered user navigates, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic web.
- Cookies analysis: They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.
- Cookies advertising: They show advertising based on their browsing, their country of origin, language, etc.
What are own and third-party cookies?
The own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and the of third parties are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
What happens if I disable cookies?
To understand the scope that can have disable the cookies we show you some examples:
- You will not be able to share content from this website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
- The website will not be able to adapt the contents to your personal preferences, as usually happens in online stores.
- You will not be able to access the personal area of this website, such as My account, or My profileor My orders.
- Online Stores: It will be impossible for you to make purchases online, they will have to be telephone or visiting the physical store if you have it.
- It will not be possible to customize your geographical preferences as time slot, currency or language.
- The website will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and traffic on the web, which will make it difficult for the web to be competitive.
- You will not be able to write on the blog, you will not be able to upload photos, post comments, rate or rate content. The web will not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.
- It will not be possible to show sectorized advertising, which will reduce the advertising revenue of the web.
- All social networks use cookies, if you disable them you will not be able to use any social network.
Can cookies be deleted?
Yeah. Not only delete, also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.
To remove cookies from a website you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to its elimination.
Configuration of cookies for the most polular browsers
Below we indicate how to access a cookie determined from browser Chrome. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:
- Go to Settings or Preferences through the File menu or by clicking the customization icon that appears at the top right.
- He will see different sections, click option Show advanced options.
- Go to Privacy, Content settings.
- Select All cookies and site data.
- A list with all cookies ordered by domain will appear. To make it easier for you to find the cookies of a certain domain enter the address partially or totally in the field Search for cookies.
- After performing this filter, one or more lines will appear on the screen with the cookies of the requested web. Now you just have to select it and press X to proceed with its removal.
To access the configuration of cookies of browser Internet Explorer follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
- Go to Tools, Internet Options
- Click on Privacy.
- Move the delizer to adjust the level of privacy you want.
To access the configuration of cookies of browser Firefox follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
- Go to Options or Preferences according to your operating system.
- Click on Privacy.
- In History choose Use custom settings for history.
- Now you will see option Accept cookies, you can enable or disable it according to your preferences.
To access the configuration of cookies of browser Safari for OSX follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
- Go to Preferences, then Privacy.
- In this place you will see the option Block cookies so that you can adjust the type of blocking you want to perform.
To access the configuration of cookies of the browser Safari for iOS follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
- Go to Adjustments, then Safari.
- Go to Privacy and Security, you will see option Block cookiesso that you can adjust the type of blocking you want to perform.
To access the configuration of cookies of the browser for devices Android follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):
- Run your browser and press key Menu, then Settings.
- Go to Security and Privacy, you will see option Accept cookies so that you activate or deactivate the box.
To access the configuration of cookies of the browser for devices Windows Phone follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
- Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings
- You can now enable or disable the box Allow cookies.