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HTTP cookie

A concept that can help you make safer digital choices.

  1. The useful idea

    An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small block of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's

  2. How it works

    computer or other device by the user's web browser.

  3. Why it matters

    Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user's device during a session.

Use HTTP cookie to recognize risk and choose the safer digital action.

Use HTTP cookie to recognize risk and choose the safer digital action.

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  • How it works
  • Why it matters

An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small block of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's

EvergreenLast verified 2026-07-19

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