What are cookies?

Question

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Answer 1

cookies are a way a website can remember preferences a user made.
As an example, you have a multilingual site, and the user prefers it to be English, the next time he enters the site it will be in English.
Also can be used to track the users movements, search behaviour, time on the site, interests(the user clicking on links provided) on the website

Answer 2

Cookies are text files retained on computers by browsers containing various information in regards to a specific website visit. Another way to think of this is that a cookie is a message given to a web browser from a web server that is then sent back to the web server whenever the browserrequests a page from it