What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data stored on a user's computer. It stores and retrieves information about the user (such as preferences or login information) over an extended period. The main benefit of cookies for web content providers is that they allow the website to tailor its presentation to more accurately match users' preferences based on their browsing history. Many vendors provide web analytics services by identifying web page features that appeal to their visitors and using this information to improve their services.

Cookies or HTML Cookies are small files that websites use to recognize individual users rather than their computers. When a user enters a website, a cookie is stored or asked to be stored in a temporary folder on his device. When he next visits that site, the cookie will be checked for. Different sites use cookies to store different information. A good example is information in a form being automatically stored when we visit a site we have used recently to order something.

Today modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari, give the option to block cookies from being downloaded. However, it is very important to remember that the majority of websites need cookies to work correctly, and therefore, blocking cookies would make the browsing experience a frustrating one because the speed will not be the same. Cookies make the browsers faster and it is easy for the browsers to restore or display the information quickly. Therefore, we should not be afraid of cookies as they are like friends to help us do tasks. Cookies are used to make the internet better, faster, and more reliable.

HTTP Cookie

The HTTP Cookie is a minor piece of data directed from a website and stored on the device by the user's browser during browsing. Cookies are built to make the mechanism more reliable for the websites to record or store useful information about the user's browsing activities. 

Therefore, cookies are very useful. After all, they remember your browsing activities, making it tremendously easy to search quickly and making your browsing experience great because they are already in your cache memory.