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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. Magic cookie - Wikipedia

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    Cookies are used as identifying tokens in many computer applications. When one visits a website, the remote server may leave an HTTP cookie on one's computer, where they are often used to authenticate identity upon returning to the website. Cookies are a component of the most common authentication method used by the X Window System.

  4. What are cookies, exactly, and are they good or bad? Cyber ...

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    Your computer stores that cookie and, when you visit that website again, "the server can recognize that the device is the same one as was used previously," Steinberg explains. ... Your so-called ...

  5. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The term "magic cookie" in turn derives from "fortune cookie", a cookie with an embedded message. Cursor (user interface) - Cursor is Latin for 'runner.' A cursor is the name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline that is used for marking a point on a slide rule .

  6. Enable cookies in your web browser - AOL Help

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    A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer by your web browser. With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! • Enable cookies in Firefox • Enable cookies in Chrome

  7. What are cookies exactly? Cybersecurity experts break it down

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    Your computer stores that cookie and, when you visit that website again, "the server can recognize that the device is the same one as was used previously," Steinberg explains. ... Your so-called ...

  8. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while the user is browsing.

  9. Allow cookies? Here's the final answer - AOL

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    Cookies are one or more small pieces of data that identify your computer to a website with a unique code, Joseph Steinberg, cybersecurity expert and emerging technologies advisor, tells Yahoo Life ...