How does the free service handle Internet cookies? What are SmartCookies?
Internet Cookies are small pieces of information generated by an application running on a web server. They are stored on your local hard drive for further retrieval. The information stored in the cookie can be used for web page personalization, shopping carts, or session tracking by marketing companies interested in profiling your online activities. The use of web cookies has gained extreme popularity among webmasters, but the old Internet user quick fix of disabling browser cookies is laden with problems: it will leave the user unable to access popular sites and will result in broken web pages attributed to the disabled cookie functionality. To overcome the limitations poised by web cookie design without sacrificing functionality, Megaproxy® has developed an efficient solution in the form of a cookie rewriting mechanism. We take the original cookie, encrypt it, and then transform it into a short-lived session state cookie that is stored within your browser memory. These SmartCookies (
