We’ve heard a lot about the word “Cookie” but many times we don’t know what jobs they do or what they really are in computing.
When we visit an Internet page, the website creates a file to host a small information or amount of data in our browser so that when we visit that page again we identify and we can access in a faster and more comfortable way according to our preferences of previous visits.
That information or data that is created in the file, is what we call cookies and we must be careful with them because they are not as harmless as they seem. We will talk about everything related to these files in our browsers for mobile phones or computers.
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While, in principle, “cookies” should not be detrimental to the user experience when we are browsing the Internet, they present complications or adverse results in the device and in our security.
For example, they can offer or sell our identity to different sites without our knowledge, or simply without our authorization.
They also saturate the browser making them slower because they need to load more information than we are requesting and, finally, can reduce the battery for mobile devices.
Are cookies a real threat to our privacy on the Internet?
The question that arises in this part of our work is to decide if cookies are functional or are a threat to our identity .
The answer to this issue is flat yes, they are a threat to our privacy on the Internet. Through them you get reports in which you can get our address, email, age, telephone number and all data that can be used to track commercial or advertising behaviors or preferences.
They are also used to relieve our religious, political, moral, etc. preferences.
You can obtain photos of us, access publications that we made in our social networks and make them your own or directly hack them and issue a different message to the original we had made with other profiles.
Cookies also allow access to meteorological data that can be used to persuade us of actions directly directed to us without our noticing.
All these reports are shared or sold by the Internet sites that we visit to people or companies engaged in commercial, political or other activities.
Although in 2012 a regulation in Europe on “cookies” was launched, which speaks that there should be a pop-up window in which at the time of navigation you must inform us that will install cookies but we will be asked for our acceptance.
Although this European legislation exists, it is not always complied with, so you have to be careful and permanently delete these spy files from our browsers.
Steps to remove cookies from all your browsers from your mobile phone Android
Our mobile phones are not exempt from the installation of cookies in the browsers we use. Therefore we want to show you the steps you need to do to delete these files and have greater personal protection and performance of your battery. We have focused our analysis on the most important browsers that exist today:
In Edge
In order to erase the information that was installed without our consent in Microsoft Edge, we will follow the following procedure:
- Let’s go to « More «
- We click on the wheel of « Configuration «
- We choose in this moment « Delete scan data «
- And select « Choose what to delete «
- Choose from the box what kind of We want to delete data,
- Then we have to select « Delete «
If we wish not to perform this task periodically, the system plans to do it automatically. For this we have to:
- Change the setting of « Always delete this data when closing the browser «
- Opt for « On «
In Mozilla
If our browser is Mozilla to delete cookies from a certain site we will have to do this job:
- With our browser open we click on the “ Menu ”
- Choose “ Options ”
- And we select the panel « Privacy and security «
- We click on « Cookies and site data «
- it will open a window in which we will have to choose « Manage data … «
- We write in the field « Search websites » the name of the site that we want to delete the cookies and all the ones that match our website will appear
- We choose « Delete all «
- We click on « Save changes «
- At this moment a window will appear for us to confirm« Delete cookies and data from the site: «
- And click on« Accept «
If what we want is to clean all the cookies of all the sites that we have browsed, the steps will be the following:
- We click on the “ Menu ” button in our open browser
- Click on “ Options ”
- We select « Privacy and security «
- We choose the option « Clean data … «
- We mark the two options we have in « Cookies and site data » and « Web content in cache «
- We click on « Clear «
In Chrome
When we have a Chrome browser, Google established the following steps as to delete the “cookies”:
- Open the browser
- In the upper right we click on « More «, these are the three vertical points
- We choose the option « More tools «
- We click on the part that says « Clear browsing data «
- We choose the time interval we want to delete or if we want to erase all the data we will have to choose the option « All periods «
- Check the boxes « Cookies and other data of sites > »And« Cached files and images «
- Finally, we click on« Clear data «
If what we want is to delete cookies by default we will have to choose after the configuration option the following steps:
- Click on « Advanced settings «
- Choose « Website settings «
- And then « Cookies accoun
- It is time to deactivate the option « Allow websites to save and consult cookie data «
In Opera
When we operate the Opera as a browser and we want to delete the spy files that exist or stayed in it we will have to proceed as follows:
- We click on « Menu «
- Later we choose « Tools «
- Select « Delete personal information «
- We choose the option« Detailed options «
- Select« Delete all tracks «
- In this step we have to choose if we only want to delete cookies or all the private data we have in these options. Assuming that we only want to delete the “cookies” we will have to uncheck the boxes of other private data options
- Click on “ Delete ” li >