Hello Kathy: A cookie is a small file that some websites want to leave on your computer or BrailleNote. For reputable websites, this cookie can serve many purposes like remembering who you are the next time you come to the site, or like in the case of Amazon, remembering the kinds of books you like to order. Some cookies make it possible so that you don't have to type your password each and every time you go to that site because the cookie lets the site assume that you are you because you are linking in from the same computer that was there before.
Now on less reputable sites, cookies can track your computer's usage and report back to the owner of the cookie the kinds of sites you like to go to, your shopping preferences even from other sites and even maintain a record of your credit card information. Sadly on today's internet, there are a lot of cookies that are attempted to be left on your computer or BrailleNote and most of those, you'll never know about until you go to clear them or you have a program that tells you there being attempted. Now, all this talk about cookies is making me hungry. hth Jeff
