I have changed your Discussion title to give a clearer indication of your question. For future reference, please be as descriptive as possible in both the heading of your Discussion as well as the post itself. Also, I have moved your Discussion from the Windows Community to the Privacy & Security Community.

Oh, wait, you mean the OTHER type of cookies!

Computer cookies can be good and they can be bad. It all depends on how the site uses them. Many "commerce" sites might use a cookie to keep track of what you have put in your "cart" and such. For sites that are "configurable", they might use a cookie to "remember" your settings for the site. Both those uses can be good. OTOH, some sites use cookies to track your movements and keep track of things you "like" and "don't like". The tracking is usually not considered a good thing...the keeping track of things you like vs don't like can be good or bad depending on how much you value your privacy...if you like your browsing experience to be more "taylored" to you, then it can be good.

In the end, a computer cookie is just a neutral tool. Whether it is good or bad is more in how the person using the tool chooses to use that tool...just like a knife...if you use it to cut bread or such, it is "good"...if you use it to stab someone, generally not so good.

but anyways, cookies are usually harmless. USUALLY

but on occoasion there is the harmful cookie, which you want to get a rid of

HTTP cookies, or more commonly referred to as web cookies, tracking cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by as server to a Web client (usually a browser) and then sent back unchanged by the client each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie" is derived from "magic cookie," a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.

Because they can be used for tracking browsing behavior, cookies have been of concern for Internet privacy. As a result, they have been subject to legislation in various countries such as the United States, as well as the European Union. Cookies have also been criticized because the identification of users they provide is not always accurate and because they could potentially be a target of network attackers. Some alternatives to cookies exist, but each has its own uses, advantages, and drawbacks.

Cookies are also subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly based on the erroneous notion that they are computer programs. In fact, cookies are simple pieces of data unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware nor viruses, although cookies from certain sites are described as spyware by many anti-spyware products because they allow users to be tracked when they visit various sites.

Most modern browsers allow users to decide whether to accept cookies, but rejection makes some websites unusable. For example, shopping carts implemented using cookies do not work if cookies are rejected.