Cookies surround us, chase us and are always involved in great controversy. However, they have always been classified with that halo of innocence that makes things flow better in our mobile or browser and that saves resources on many occasions. Many users decide to delete cookies on their Android mobile , but what is the use of deleting cookies and how is it done?
But to make a decision and understand why it is important for many users to delete cookies , we should stop for a moment to remember what these files are and how they work on our Android mobile.
Cookies on Android
Cookies are files created by the different websites that we visit to save browsing information and facilitate the online experience. These types of files have such useful functions as keeping sessions open, remembering the preferences of a specific website or providing relevant content depending on where we are located. It is important to differentiate the cache cookies, and that the second cookies are created to remember parts of pages, such as images, so that they open in less time each time we visit them. Android phones have two types of cookies:
- Cookies of origin : they are created by the site that is visited. The site is displayed in the address bar.
- Third-party cookies : created by other sites. In this case, part of the content being viewed on the website you visit, such as ads or images, belongs to these other sites.
Why delete cookies
By deleting Cookies, we will perform a cleaning of all this tracking for more personalized navigation . Many users perform this option as part of frequent cleaning. Deleting cookies also means freeing up certain storage space, since this tracking is carried out through files that are stored on our mobile.
How to delete them on our mobile
Any web browser that we have installed on our mobile should allow us to delete cookies or limit their access. In Android, taking into account that Chrome is the default browser in many terminals, we must enter the application and press the “Settings” button (three vertical dots) and then tap on Privacy / Clear browsing data. Then we choose a time interval, like last hour or all. Next we mark the option “Cookies, media licenses and site data”. We uncheck all the options and click on “Delete data”. Before doing so, we can select the period of deleted cookies, which can range from last-minute cookies to all the cookies we have stored on our mobile.
