The internet is a very public place. Many people, however, want to keep
information about themselves as private as possible. Aside from not
using the internet altogether, there is no way to keep everything
private. There are many ways to protect your privacy, all it takes is
some time and effort to get to the security level you are comfortable
with. One item that can be adjusted is your browsers use of “cookies”.
Cookies are small files that are written to your hard drive to keep
track of web pages you have visited. The settings can be changed, in all
web browsers, to match the privacy level desired by the user.
Information of changing your web browser cookie settings can be found at
http://privacy.getnetwise.org/browsing/tools/. All of the most popular
browsers are listed there.
