Tracking cookies on AVG

superstar_2

When I run my AVG antivirus, there seems to be lots of tracking cookies detected nowadays, are they harmful?

foxwales

Tracking cookies are not harmful but they can store details about what sites you have visited, activity that takes place on your computer, login details, personal information and a few more like date and time stamps, user names to name but a few.

Ideally you should be removing these on a regular basis. Use adaware, spydoctor or windows defender (programs I personally recommend) to remove these tracking cookies completely.

robt_2

foxwales wrote: »

Tracking cookies are not harmful but they can store details about what sites you have visited, activity that takes place on your computer, login details, personal information and a few more like date and time stamps, user names to name but a few.

Ideally you should be removing these on a regular basis. Use adaware, spydoctor or windows defender (programs I personally recommend) to remove these tracking cookies completely.

That post is bordering on scaremongering. You make them sound like they are tracking your every move, recording you login details for every website you visit, collecting personal information and what you use your computer for.

Just because they can do SOME of those things, it does not mean that they are, and in almost all cases are not. I strongly suggest that you look up common misconceptions regarding cookies.

There is no need at all to remove them, unless you specifically want to.

"Ideally you should be removing these on a regular basis" is totally false.

Marty_J

I have my browser set to reject all cookies, apart from the ones on my exception list.

foxwales

robt wrote: »

That post is bordering on scaremongering. You make them sound like they are tracking your every move, recording you login details for every website you visit, collecting personal information and what you use your computer for.

Just because they can do SOME of those things, it does not mean that they are, and in almost all cases are not. I strongly suggest that you look up common misconceptions regarding cookies.

There is no need at all to remove them, unless you specifically want to.

"Ideally you should be removing these on a regular basis" is totally false.

So you can personally vouch that all cookies are safe and don't data mine?

Cookie data collection differs from cookie to cookie; unless you want this information relayed, delete them.

Lokolo

Quidco uses tracking cookies so it knows you actually bought what you said you bought