"Cookies" are short pieces of text sent from the user's computer to the web server in order to identify that particular user as they browse, and also to remember what pages they have viewed.

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Increased protection of personal data through the 2003 Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, and more recently the 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) means that a user can change the settings in their web browser to allow or deny different websites from setting cookies.