How to Delete Tracking Cookies

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Tracking cookies are tiny files that get downloaded and saved to your computer’s drive when you browse the web. Unlike regular cookies, which are used to store specific information related to your website visit on your PC in order to facilitate future visits to the same site, tracking cookies are used to gather information on your activity and transfer it to the cookie publisher. Sometimes this information may contain data that can undermine your privacy and lead to unwanted results.

Tracking cookies can be cleaned out and their accumulation can be prevented with special software that detects and eliminates cookies and other unwanted items.

The article provides details on the symptoms and causes of tracking cookie accumulations, as well as ways to remove tracking cookies from a PC.

Ways to remove tracking cookies from a PC

Advanced PC users may be able to clean out tracking cookies from PC by locating all folders that may contain cookies saved for all web browsers installed on a computer, and then manually removing all unwanted cookies from these locations. However, since there is always a risk of mistaking a crucial system file for an unneeded temporary file or cookie and causing malfunctions through its removal, whenever a user is in any doubt of their technical skills or knowledge, they should use special software that is meant to detect and safely remove only the truly unneeded cookies and other files without requiring any special skills.

The following steps may remove tracking cookies from a PC:

The same application can be used to run preventative measures to reduce the chance of this or other system issues appearing in the future.

Symptoms of tracking cookie accumulations

The unfortunate thing about accumulations of tracking cookies on a computer is the fact that there are usually no specific symptoms. Cookies are designed to work in the background without displaying any dialogs or other windows or requiring user action. Any data transmission, both malicious and benign, also happens in the background. A user may have just a couple or hundreds of tracking cookies on their computer and never know it.