Boost your online privacy...
Odds are that your computer's browser is full of cookies, tiny files left behind as you go from website to website. Mine is, Allen St. John reports on consumerreports.org.
My personal machine has close to 5,000 cookies, St. John added.
Some of the web cookies on your machine are used by big advertising companies looking to gather and store information about you -- what you shop for, which sites you visit, and so on. That can feel like a violation of your privacy and make you think you should dive in and delete them all, St. John wrote.
For more on cookies and how you can control them on your computer: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-control-web-cookies-and-boost-online-privacy/
Photo: Buzzfeed.
Where did all these cookies come from?
Odds are that your computer's browser is full of cookies, tiny files left behind as you go from website to website. Mine is, Allen St. John reports on consumerreports.org.
My personal machine has close to 5,000 cookies, St. John added.
Some of the web cookies on your machine are used by big advertising companies looking to gather and store information about you -- what you shop for, which sites you visit, and so on. That can feel like a violation of your privacy and make you think you should dive in and delete them all, St. John wrote.
For more on cookies and how you can control them on your computer: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-control-web-cookies-and-boost-online-privacy/
Photo: Buzzfeed.
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