Peter said:
Hi,
On a computer scan AVG found no infections but MANY "Tracking
cookies".
1) Can I delete these without bad consequences ?
2) What is the advantage of keeping them ?
Thanks,
Peter
Contrary to the closed minded Bruce, cookies can and do have some useful
purposes. This will explain some of it, including tracking cookies,
which the link explains:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
I keep some, delete all others. There are many cookie handlers out
there that are useful and also a lot of BS ones so be careful if you go
that route. Personally I use WinPatrol for that purpose. If you want to
keep a cookie, say one that automatically signs you in somewhere, you
mark it. Else it'll get deleted. It's only one small feature of
winpatrol, but quite useful. Even tracking cookies, on some few sites,
are handy. What you especially don't want are third party cookies. I
only allow first-party and only on a per session basis, so I don't have
a lot to keep track of. You can, too. Tracking cookies are mostly
marketing devices; they do in fact monitor where y ou've been and what
pages you've used and what page you left a site from, things like that.
Check the link above for details.
Cheers,
Bro`
