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Are cookies potentially dangerous?

April 26, 2017cookies dangerous potentially

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Are cookies potentially dangerous?

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The cookies issued by our site are no more dangerous than the site itself; not dangerous at all. Since they can only be read by your browser and our web server, you should attach the same level of trust to our cookies as you do to our site. (So-called “third-party” cookies can be employed unscrupulously. We do not use third-party cookies. If you are concerned about third-party cookies, you can configure the latest versions of most major browsers to block them.

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Cookies are no more dangerous than the web page viewed along with them. Since they can only be read by your browser and the site that issues them, you should attached the same level of trust to cookies as you do to the site that issues them as a whole.