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When you choose Total Defense, you’re safeguarded with award-winning, multi-layered virus protection technology. Our powerful security lets you confidently shop, bank and browse online. In fact, we’re so certain we can protect you, if you’re running a Total Defense Security Product and a virus slips past our powerful protection, our expert technology advisors will remove the virus from your device for free. In the unlikely event the virus can’t be removed, we will give you your money back.
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Helpful tips and articles with practical steps you can follow to improve your online safety
Total Defense Security Tip of the Day
07.22.26
Browser cookies vs. tracking cookies: What’s the difference and how do they affect your privacy?
Cookies are not automatically bad. In fact, many websites would feel broken without them. But not all cookies do the same thing, and understanding the difference between regular browser cookies and tracking cookies can help you protect your privacy without making the web harder to use.
What are browser cookies?
A browser cookie is a small piece of information saved by your web browser when you visit a website. The FTC explains that cookies help websites recognize your device later, remember your preferences, keep items in a shopping cart, and customize your browsing experience.
Common uses include:
- Keeping you signed in
- Remembering language or display settings
- Saving shopping cart items
- Maintaining website sessions
- Helping websites understand basic site performance
These are usually called first-party cookies when they are created by the website you are actively visiting. MDN explains that a cookie is considered first-party when the cookie’s domain matches the site shown in your browser’s address bar.
What are tracking cookies?
Tracking cookies are usually used to follow activity across websites, often for advertising, analytics, or profiling. The FTC says websites and apps may use cookies or pixels to identify users after they leave a site, and third-party tracking can let companies track users across many websites.
Mozilla explains that third-party trackers can use cross-site cookies to collect information about the websites you visit and send that information to other companies, often for advertising.
In simple terms:
- Browser cookie: Helps a site remember something useful.
- Tracking cookie: Helps companies follow behavior across sites.
Why do tracking cookies matter?
Tracking cookies can build a profile of your interests, habits, searches, purchases, and browsing patterns. That is why ads sometimes seem to “follow” you after you view a product or visit a certain website. The FTC says third-party tracking lets advertisers show targeted ads based on your interests and online activity.
Privacy concerns are widespread. According to Pew Research Center’s 2023 data privacy report, 67% of U.S. adults say they understand little to nothing about what companies are doing with their personal data.
Are cookies dangerous?
Cookies are not malware. They cannot install software, run code, or directly steal files from your device. The privacy concern comes from how cookies are used, especially when third parties use them to connect your activity across multiple websites. MDN notes that third-party cookies are also called cross-site cookies because the behavior involves activity across different sites.
How can you manage cookies safely?
You do not need to block every cookie to improve privacy. Instead, focus on limiting unnecessary tracking.
Try these steps:
- Block third-party cookies in your browser settings.
- Clear cookies and browsing history regularly.
- Use private browsing for temporary sessions.
- Review site permissions.
- Avoid clicking “accept all” without checking options.
- Use browsers with stronger tracking protection.
- Reset mobile advertising IDs when available.
The FTC recommends deleting cookies and clearing browsing history if you do not want ads based on previous online activity.
Browser cookies can make websites work better. Tracking cookies can make your browsing behavior easier to follow across the internet. The smart move is not to panic about all cookies, but to understand which ones improve convenience and which ones reduce privacy. Adjust your browser settings, block third-party tracking when possible, and take control of what websites remember about you.
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The VB100 award is a certification of products which meet the basic standards required to be recognized as legitimate and properly functioning anti-malware solutions.
To display a VB100 logo, a product must:- Prove it can detect 100% of malware samples listed as ‘In the Wild’ by the WildList Organization
- Generate no false positives when scanning an extensive test set of clean samples.
- All this must be done with default, out-of-the-box settings in the VB lab environment.
