The big ideaA cookie is a tiny note a page saves. A grown-up helps choose the settings.
How it works
A web cookie is not a snack. It is a tiny note a page can save on a device, a bit like a coat check ticket.
Some notes help, like keeping your basket full or remembering your language.
Some pages let an ad company save a note too, and the notes follow a device from page to page. That is tracking.
A grown-up helps choose the settings.
Why dinosaur ads followed Amara.
Example 1: A helpful note
A shop page saves a note.
It keeps your basket full.
A note can also remember your language or keep you signed in.
Example 2: A following note
An ad company saves a note on many pages.
It sees which pages a device visits, then picks ads to match.
That is why dinosaur ads followed Amara. It was not mind reading.
Two kinds of note.
Example 3: A cookie pop-up
A pop-up asks about cookies.
Do not tap accept all on your own. Stop and ask a grown-up.
Read the choices together, and the grown-up picks which notes to allow.
Example 4: Clearing the notes
A grown-up can clear the old cookies in settings.
A basket may empty and you may be signed out.
The pages forget and start fresh.
Words to know
web cookie
A tiny note a page saves on a device.
tracking
When notes follow a device from page to page.
clear
To remove the old notes so pages start fresh.
Watch out
Do not tap accept all on your own, or tap fast to make a pop-up go away.
A cookie cannot read your mind. It is only a note.
Name, home and phone stay private from people online. A password is only for your family.
You are never in trouble for asking about a pop-up.
Try it
Can a web cookie read your mind?
A basket note or an ad note: which is tracking?
A pop-up says accept all cookies. What do you do?
Is your phone number fine to put in a note a page saves?
Answers: 1. No, it is only a note · 2. The ad note · 3. Stop and ask a grown-up · 4. No, keep it private
Try at homeAsk a grown-up to show you where the cookie settings are on a family device and what each switch does, and never change them alone.
For grown-upsShow your child where the cookie settings are on a family device and what each switch does, and never change them while they watch without saying why.
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