For browser security—cleaning up your cookies

Every day we log in to our social media accounts, check emails, manage our online banking and do some e-shopping with our internet browser. Your browser tends to hold onto various information and files to ensure maximum optimization and faster load time. Unfortunately, this could cause problems over time. For example, it may makes your computer slower because of the junk files left, and records of surfing, needed of a computer cleaner to clean up all the cookies.

It’s always a good idea to clear out the cache, browser history and clear cookies on a regular basis. This allows you to avoid browser errors as well as allowing you to preserve your online security.

Before we get into the nitty-gritty, let’s understand define the terms cache and cookies

Cache

Web caches reduce the amount of information that needs to be transmitted across the network. They also reduce bandwidth and processing requirements of the web server, and helps to improve responsiveness for users of the web.

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the Cache is a part of a computer’s memory where information is kept so that the computer can find it very quickly. The basic purpose of cache memory is to store program instructions that are frequently re-referenced by software or a web site during operation.

Cookies

Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember information such as items in a shopping cart or to record the user’s browsing activity.

Although cookies cannot carry viruses or install malware on your computer, if you don’t have an anti-malware tool on your PC, tracking cookies and especially third-party tracking cookies are commonly used as ways to compile detailed tracking information of your surfing habits as well as of you browsing history.

Combined with the fact that cookies have the ability to store information such as credit numbers, address, full name and passwords they become a true privacy concern. So much so that it prompted European and U.S. law makers to take action in 2011.

The ‘Cookie Law’ dictates that consent must be collected from web users before placing a cookie on their computer. Online businesses are also being urged to sort out how they get consent so they can keep on using cookies. Today, many websites will deliver a consent screen when you visit their sites for the first time asking for your permission to receive all cookies.

But how to clean up the cookies on your browser? Taking google chrome for example, you can click the Chrome menu, select More tools, select Clear browsing data, Select the check boxes for the types of information that you want to remove in the dialog that appears and use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Select beginning of time to delete everything.

Another way, which is easier to operate, is to install the computer optimizer —UPCleaner, just check the browser web protection function and it will protect your browser privacy all the time.