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Small files sent by sites, used by web browsers, to keep your session or preferences for next time.

HTTP Cookies are small pieces of information in name-value pairs, used for persisting session data on a local computer. Examples include saving a login state, shopping cart contents or location preferences.

If your question is about HTML5 Local Storage, look at or use the tag instead.

For Local shared objects, otherwise known as flash cookies, include when pairing with

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How do I view, add or edit Cookies in Google Chrome?

I wish to view, add and edit the cookies of my google chrome. Can anyone suggest to me a way to do it?
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How can I clear cookies for a single site?

Sometimes a webapp breaks for whatever reason, and I need to clear my cookies in order to use it again. I wind up clearing all of my cookies, which is a pain, because I then have to log back in to all the sites I use. I've tried F12, and…
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Why are websites suddenly asking me about cookies?

I have for a long time known that websites give me cookies so that small pieces of information can be remembered about my habits, passwords etc. I accept this, but all of a sudden they are asking for my permission to do so. Why has this changed?…
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How to delete cookies for a specific site

I need a button or bookmarklet to delete the cookies from the current context. Clearing the cache would be another option. Specifically, I am logged into too many Google sites and have multiple accounts active. If I log out, it logs everything out.…
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What do cookie warnings mean by "Legitimate Interest"?

I've had to decline/accept cookies for a while now. But something I've noticed on a handful of websites are now suggesting that the cookies have 'legitimate interest'? I have a legitimate interest in IRL cookies I can eat, but I do not know what it…
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Disable ALL cookie warnings and hints

What might be an effective way to universally block or auto-accept common cookie warning banners before the web browser shows them to the user? Eg. does a userscript (Greasefire/Tampermonkey) exist to find and thwart most cookie-warning…
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What do browsers do with expired cookies?

What do browsers do with expired cookies? I know that the app won't read them in, and I'm assuming the browser wouldn't send them, but are they purged from the file system with any regularity?
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Can I create a new session in another tab or window in Google Chrome?

I have multiple accounts on many of the same services. I would like a better way to manage my sessions. A personal Gmail account, and one for work A personal Amazon account, one for work A personal hosting account, one for work, one I manage for a…
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Chrome cookies folder in Windows 7

Where does Google Chrome store its cookies when running on Windows 7?
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How does a website remember not to store cookies?

A popup on a website showed up, and asked me if I allowed the website to store preferences in cookies. By accident, I said "no". Refreshing/restarting does not bring the popup back. Is there a default way to get these kind of popups back, without…
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How can I delete current session in Chrome?

I'm using Google Chrome and want to delete the current session data on the fly. I can do this on Firefox with the web developer extension, but Chrome doesn't seem to have the same option in their webdev extension. So how can I do this? I realize…
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Delete specific cookies from Google Chrome?

How can I delete specific cookies from Google Chrome? I have cookies from a website that recently got updated, and I need to clean up the existing cookies, but I don't want to delete any other cookies that I have in the browser.
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How do I transfer / copy cookies from one browser to another or same browser from one machine to another?

How do I copy the cookies from one browser in one machine to another? I want to retain the "user details" that the site maintains...
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How do I use Firefox cookies with Wget?

wget --load-cookies will load cookies as a "textual file in the format originally used by Netscape's cookies.txt file". However, Firefox keeps its cookies in an SQLite database. Is there a way to extract the "Netscape's cookies.txt file" from the…
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View Cookies in Mozilla Firefox

If you use Mozilla Firefox in the "never remember history" setting, how can one see which cookies are currently saved (and possibly delete specific ones)? The answer I've heard is to look in Preferences -> Tools, but this is the screen shot of that…
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