Institution: Osnovna Škola Čakovec
Target Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Duration: 30 minutes
Type of Practice: Examples
Objective:
To acquire a good practice of how to be careful with cookies while browsing.
Brief Description:
Cookies are small text files that are stored in our browser while we are browsing an Internet page and are used to open the same page faster next time. Cookies remember whether we have already arranged some settings, whether we are logged in and similar.
More Information:
Cookies are actually not bad, but there are cookies that are used for tracking because they sometimes contain personal data. To reduce the damage, you need:
- Always install a new version of your web browser.
- Periodically delete browsing history and cookies, do not visit unsafe sites with suspicious content, adjust your browser’s privacy settings.
What do you need to replicate?
The procedure of becoming aware that the cookies are usually good and helpful, but we also need to be careful with tracking ones.
