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Reject unnecessary cookies:
Cookies enable Web sites to store information about your visit on your own hard drive. Cookies inform site operators if you have visited the site and, if you have obtained a username and password, cookies remember that information for you. Many of the "personalized" search engines use cookies to deliver news topics that users select; sites often use these same preferences to target advertisement.
Furthermore, cookies can be used to track you online and enable a creation of a profile without you realizing it. You can search your hard drive for a file with the word "cookie" in it (i.e., cookies.txt or magiccookie) to view the cookies that have been attached to your computer.
Newer browsers allow you to recognize sites that send you cookies and reject them outright. To do this requires the following steps:
- click on the "edit" box and scroll down to "preferences";
- under "preferences" access the "advanced" screen.
To delete cookies in Internet Explorer, delete cookies by doing the following:
- Click on the "general" icon "delete files" button in the "general" icon of "tools"' "internet options" menu.
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