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  2. HTTP cookie - Wikipedia

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    HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be ...

  3. Secure cookie - Wikipedia

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    Secure cookie is a type of an HTTP cookie that has the Secure attribute set, which limits the scope of the cookie to "secure" channels (where "secure" is defined by the user agent, typically web browser). When a cookie has the Secure attribute, the user agent will include the cookie in an HTTP request only if the request is transmitted over a ...

  4. Third-party cookies - Wikipedia

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    Third-party cookies are HTTP cookies which are used principally for web tracking as part of the web advertising ecosystem. While HTTP cookies are normally sent only to the server setting them or a server in the same Internet domain, a web page may contain images or other components stored on servers in other domains. Third-party cookies are the ...

  5. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies - AOL Privacy

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    Cookies and Other Local Storage. Generally speaking, cookies are text files that are placed in your device's browser, and that can be used to help recognize your browser across different Web pages, websites, and browsing sessions. Cookies are stored on your device or in "local storage."

  6. Internet privacy - Wikipedia

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    It may also be used for user-tracking by storing special usage history data in a cookie, and such cookies — for example, those used by Google Analytics — are called tracking cookies. Cookies are a common concern in the field of Internet privacy.

  7. List of cookies - Wikipedia

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    egg roll (鸡蛋卷), love letters, kueh belandah, crispy biscuit roll, crisp biscuit roll or cookie roll: Spain: Derivative of barquillos. Biscuit snack commonly found in Asia. It is crunchy and can be easily broken into pieces. Made of wheat flour, butter, egg, sugar and vanilla flavor.

  8. Web browsing history - Wikipedia

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    Web browsing history is also collected by cookies on websites, which could be divided into two kinds, first-party cookies and third-party cookies. Third-party cookies are usually embedded on first-party websites and collect information from them. [10] Third-party cookies have higher efficiency and data aggregation ability than first-party cookies.

  9. Search engine privacy - Wikipedia

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    Google, founded in 1998, is the most widely used search engine, receiving billions and billions of search queries every month. [8] Google logs all search terms in a database along with the date and time of search, browser and operating system, IP address of user, the Google cookie, and the URL that shows the search engine and search query. [10]