Whenever you visit a website, It ask for permission to use cookies, but why does that website ask for cookies and what are cookies?
Internet Cookies :
To use Internet, we need a browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, edge or Opera. Whenever we do some search on the browsers, browser record our activity like, which website you are visiting more, on which website you are spending more time, how long you have visited that page, What are you more interested in, all the information is store by browser in our computer hard disk and this file is called internet cookies.
How does Internet Cookies :
Whenever we do some search on the browser, the cookie saved by the browser, help the server to know about your interest then according to your interest the search engine show you the result that is best for you. This saves both your time and data. Lets understand this with an example, when you search something on amazon or flipkart and then you closed the browser, but when you open amazon or flipkart again, then you see an advertisement of a product on the home of those website, related to your search. Not only this, when you visit any other website, you will get to see your search related advertisements through Google AdSense. The browser helps us find our search by recording this information.
Type of Internet Cookies :
- Session Cookies
- Persistence Cookies
- Secure Cookies
- HTTP only Cookies
Advantages of Internet Cookies :
- Cookies save both our time and data.
- The file size of cookies is very small, so it does not take up much space on the computer hard disk.
- If your browser closes by mistake, then the browser restores that page again due to cookies.
- If you have created an account on a website or given your bank account detail, then you do not have to fill it again and again because browser automatically makes the fill the data, this saves you a lot of time.
- Because of the cookies, we get only related searches of the product.
Disadvantage of Internet Cookies :
- The cookies file save by the browser are not encrypted due to which third party websites can easily access that data without our permission.
- Cookies can cause the computer slow, so it should be cleared from time to time.
- Cookie depends on the browsers, as if you are using both chrome and edge browsers in your computer but you cannot use the cookies of the chrome browser in other browsers, in the same way, the cookies of the edge also cannot use by chrome.
- The browser gives us the benefit of one click login because the browser save our id and password, but if this data is leak or stolen by hacker, so it misuse can lead.