Advice Request Cookies: Should I worry about them?

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Source: Cookies: Should I worry about them? - Malwarebytes Labs

Starting off the new year, many of us are worried about cookies—how many we ate over the holidays and how we’re going to avoid them in the break room, for example. With so much cybercrime and data theft swirling around like daily bomb cyclones, there’s more than a few folks worried about the kinds of cookies they encounter on the Internet.

But should they be?

Cookies are typically text files that can provide information about your browsing behavior to websites that you visit. On the one hand, cookies are useful for making your Internet experience more efficient. It’s how you automatically get logged in on sites you’ve already visited, even if you closed the browser tab, for example. But on the other hand, cookies are part of the advertising ecosystem that knows which advertisements are most likely to draw your attention—and they serve them up to you wherever you visit.

Why doesn’t Malwarebytes detect cookies?
Cookies in themselves are harmless. They are just data stored by a website in your browser, and they are not malware. It is what sites do with them that determines whether we like them or not. Some cookies are essential to use a site properly, and others might be considered a privacy risk. Since the possible preferences are various and personal, we believe in leaving the choice up to our customers. Of course, we can and do block sites that we know to plant overly intrusive cookies on a user’s machine. But otherwise, we leave it up to you.

 

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Cookies contain a lot of sugar.
Edit: Wrong topic.

Manage Cookies in Firefox settings:
Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences | Firefox Help
Firefox Addons (WebExtensions):
Search results for "cookies" – Add-ons for Firefox

Manage Cookies in Chrome settings:
Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome - Computer - Google Chrome Help
Chrome Web Store (Extensions):
Search results for "cookies" – Chrome Web Store

@Prorootect may be able to make some recommendations to manage Cookies.