Cookie

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are pieces of information that a web server generates and a web browser receives. The visits are thus stored to understand a user’s particular actions and preferences. These cookies are used to make future requests by users, which can help enhance the user experience of a website. 

If you wish to see which of the cookies you have accepted, and being a Google Chrome user, you can see the cookies as follows:-

Opening Developer Tools > Application > Cookies

Cookies are useful for monitoring user navigation and behaviour to personalise the user experience. Because of this, there’s an issue of user privacy, as users may feel that tracking their behaviour can be used for marketing purposes. 

There are different types of cookies based on their use: session cookies, persistent cookies, authentication cookies, tracking cookies, zombie cookies and third-party cookies.