Cookies
Top 10 sites
1. Outlook Office
2. Prezi
3. Facebook
4. Skype
5. Twitchtv
6. Google
7. Youtube
8. Mobistar
9. Netflix
10. The Guardian
What kind of sites and what is their purpose?
- Primarily sites that require a login or use personalized information for marketing purposes adjusted to your search results.
- Increase the interaction speed between websites and users
Advantages of cookies:
1. Cookies do not require any server resources since they are stored in the client.
2. Cookies are easy to implement.
3. You can configure cookies to expire when the browser session ends (session cookies) or they can exist for a specified length of time on the client computer (persistent cookies).
Disadvantages of cookies:
1. Users can delete cookies.
2. Users browser can refuse cookies,so your code has to anticipate that possibility.
3. Cookies exist as plain text on the client machine and they may pose a possible security risk as anyone can open and tamper with cookies.