A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The usefulness of the cookie is that the web is able to remember your visit when you return to browse that page. Although many people do not know it, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.
It is not a virus, not a trojan, not a worm, not spam, not spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.
Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they keep is of a technical nature, personal preferences, personalization of content, etc.
The web server does not associate you as a person but with your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse with Internet Explorer and try to browse the same web with Firefox or Chrome, you will see that the web does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.
Technical cookies: They are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
Analysis cookies: They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use the most, products consulted, time zone of use, language, etc.
Advertising cookies: They show advertising based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc.
Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and those of third parties are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
To understand the scope that disabling cookies may have, we show you some examples:
Yes. Not only delete, but also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.
To delete cookies from a website, you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to delete them.
Here is how to access a specific cookie from the Chrome browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:
To access the cookie settings of the Internet Explorer browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
To access the cookie settings of the Firefox browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
To access the cookie settings of the Safari for OSX browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
To access the cookie settings of the Safari for iOS browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):
To access the browser cookie settings for Android devices, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):