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A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site. The state information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user's preferences, shopping cart contents, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data on the user's computer.

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Why users want to disable cookies?

In the documentation, it is written that I have to prepare for the situation where users have disabled cookies. This is not the first time I have read this condition. … Can anyone explain me why users want to disable cookies in their browsers? …
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