A file that contains cookies. Internet Explorer saves cookies in separate files in the Cookies folder. Netscape and Firefox save cookies in a COOKIES.TXT file within a Profile folder. See cookie and ...

THESE days, with every webpage comes an annoying message about cookies but the UK is now planning to get rid of “pointless” web cookie requests as part of its post-Brexit plans. We’ve put together a ...

Clearing SFGate-related browser cookies and cached files (and then restarting your broswer) can sometimes take care of display or login problems with SFGate. Here's how to do that. 1. In Mozilla ...

Mozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls "Total Cookie Protection" as the default for the Firefox browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies ...

Cookies are small amounts of data sent from a website to a computer. In Windows, most cookies are stored as text files in the logged-on user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Websites use the encoded ...

Recently, little boxes began popping up on Web pages I visited. They showed my picture and welcomed me by name. They also included details that made it clear these sites knew I was a Facebook member.

MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited. The trick involves capturing a ...

Starting today, with the release of Safari 13.1 and through updates to the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) privacy feature, Apple now blocks all third-party cookies in Safari by default. The ...