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RealTime Cookie & Cache Cleaner 3 - User Guide and FAQ

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Cookies - The Hard Facts

In the last year, "cookies" have become an increasing topic of discussion in the online world. A cookie is a small piece of information written to the hard drive of an Internet user when he or she visits a website that offers cookies. Cookie files are extremely small, comprising no more than 255 characters and 4k of disk space (Christle). Cookies can contain a variety of information, including the name of the website that issued them, where on the site the user visited, passwords, and even user names and credit card numbers that have been supplied via forms (Dyrli, 20). Cookies are supposedly only retrievable by the site which issued them, and link the information gathered to a unique ID number assigned to the cookie "so that...information is available from one session to another." (Sullivan).

The most pressing issue concerning cookies, more than possible hardware invasions and general unease with the placing of files on user hard drives by third parties is the concern of user privacy and the potential for abuse. Advertisers and webmasters are currently using cookies to develop detailed profiles of users and their browsing habits. Each click on a particular type of advertisement or page in a website is added to the profile maintained by the maintainer. For the time being this information is primarily used for website design and the placement of banner advertisements, but the possibility also exists for these profiles to be sold and resold to other commercial interests (Roubulack). This could lead to deeper incursions into personal privacy, because if any one of the cookie-maintainers links a user identity to their cookie ID, then that information could also be resold. "...once your identity becomes known to a single company listed in your cookies file, any of the others might know who you are every time you visit their sites".

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