THESE days, with every webpage comes an annoying message about cookies but the UK is now planning to get rid of “pointless” web cookie requests as part of its post-Brexit plans. We’ve put together a ...

Clearing SFGate-related browser cookies and cached files (and then restarting your broswer) can sometimes take care of display or login problems with SFGate. Here's how to do that. 1. In Mozilla ...

A “cookie” is a small piece of information that a website can store in a designated file on your computer. It can be used, among other things, to identify you when you log in to a website. When you ...

Mozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls "Total Cookie Protection" as the default for the Firefox browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies ...

From data being sent and received in milliseconds to complex algorithms determining what appears on our screens, there's a lot that happens behind the scenes when we browse the web. Cookies are ...

Cookies are small amounts of data sent from a website to a computer. In Windows, most cookies are stored as text files in the logged-on user's Temporary Internet Files folder. Websites use the encoded ...

MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited. The trick involves capturing a ...

They're everywhere, and they're reasonably confusing – so what the heck are internet cookies, and what do they actually do? THESE days, with every webpage comes an annoying message about cookies but ...