Is it necessary to keep cookies in your computer?

Question

Is it necessary to keep cookies in your computer?

Answer 1

I delete my cookies once a week, due to some site include TRACKING COOKIES, which if left alone, and not deleted can form into a virus, therefor killing youre pc.

Answer 2

Its not necessary to keep Cookies in your computer unless and until you are used to put the website names on your own by typing. Cookies are mostly kept because they provide a memory to the computer which can detect the website names which you had opened in the past similar to what you are trying to open right now. Its recommended to clean off the cookies once in a week to avoid the load on the internet traffic your PC gets.  

Answer 3

If you don't want virues yes...

Answer 4

No actually is is best to delete cooking as well as the casch!

Answer 5

absolutely positively not. They are used to track where you go and what you download and view online. This info is sent to and from your computer. only helpful in loading a webpage faster. ccleaner and sweepi are great for the removal. use the overwrite option on both.

Answer 6

Not necessarily, however, some sites will not work properly if you do not allow them to set cookies (such as shopping sites).  However, there is nothing wrong with deleting all your cookies every time you finish surfing.  In addition, anytime you must accept cookies, I would limit it to "first-party" cookies as well.  You can easily set all of these options in a browser like Firefox.  I have mine set to clear all cookies every time I close the browser and I have not had any problems with it.

The only reason you would want to keep cookies is if you want various websites to remember all of your preferences.  However, as usual, this is a privacy risk.

Answer 7

No, it is not necessary. However, many legitimate web sites use them to keep your preferences and display the web page nicely.

The are basically 2 types of cookies (apart from chocolate chip and macadamia nuts):

1. Normal cookies: they originate from the web site you're looking at.

2. Third-party cookies: they originate from a web site OTHER than the one you're looking at.

These second type are the NASTY ones... They normally come from sites that specialize in marketing... They keep a track of your web habits regardless of the sites you're looking at (as long as these sites have a "contract" with this marketing firm). doubleclick.net is an example of such sites.

Fortunately, most browsers allow you to BLOCK third-party cookies. So since cookies can only be read by the site from where they're originating (this is a standard security feature of the browsers), then Site A cannot look at the cookies from Site B.

Bottom line: delete them and if you see an feature being remove from a site (ex: you're logged out from your Yahoo mail if you delete the cookies), then don't delete THAT cookie (some browsers even allow you to add sites into a Trusted zone so that cookies are treated differently).

Good luck!

Answer 8

hey

cookies are not necessary but it allows you to connect to a page you already went to faster. Example if you empty your cookies and then go to yahoo.com it will load up slower than if you already visited yahoo.com a few times before your cookies were cleared. This does not speed up your internet, and it is not necessary to keep your cookies and I would empty it if I were you.