Cookies Cookies are small strings of text sent to your hard drive by the web site and accessed by the web site from your computer on your next visit. These files contain information about the web sites that you've visited and your activity there.
Cookies are an essential tool for people running web sites.
They are designed to make the user's web experience easier. Cookies can keep track of registration information, search parameters, what you put in your shopping cart, and what was viewed on a site. This can be very useful with sites that are constantly changing. Some Internet users argue that cookies are an invasion of privacy but others think that's borderlining on paranoia. Advanced users can view and even delete cookie text.