How To Delete Cookies From Your Web Browser

What are Cookies?

Cookies are web beacons or small pieces of text files sent to your browser by a website you visit. They are used to store information including visitors, preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed.

More Info About The Use Of Cookies 

Cookies are very helpful to help a website remember information about your visit, which can both make it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you.

Cookies are also useful in measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and/or personalizing the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Things that are considered fundamental to a service include remembering choices and preferences such as language, enabling features of a performing task requested by you; and product optimizations that help maintain and improve that service.

How To Delete Cookies

It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use. There are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the site you visit. 

Here are the steps for deleting cookies from modern web browsers.

How to Delete Cookies on Google Chrome (Windows)

To delete Cookies from from Chrome web browser on Windows, follow these steps.

1. Open the menu from the top right corner (three dots)
2. Click on Clear browsing data (Ctrl+Shift+Del)
3. Select either Basic or Advanced
4. Select the time range if needed, you can tick the checkboxes just to make sure
5. When done, click on Clear data

How to delete Cookies on Microsoft Edge (Windows)

1. Click on the menu (three dots) at the top right corner 
2. Click on Settings
3. Click on Privacy, search, and settings 
4. Click on Choose What to Clear 
5. Make your selections 
6. Click Clear now

How to Delete Cookies on Mozilla Firefox (Windows)

1. Click on the menu (three dots)
2. Click options 
3. Click Privacy and Security 
4. Go to the cookies and site data selection 
5. Click Clear data

How to Delete Cookies on Opera (Windows)

1. Click Settings Click Advanced 
2. Click Privacy and Security 
3. Click clear browsing data 
4. Click Clear data after selecting either Basic or advanced 

How to Delete Cookies on Chrome (Android)

1. Tap on the three dots located at the right corner 
2. Tap on Clear browsing data 
3. Choose the time range and click on Clear data. Alternatively, you can follow the same steps described in the Windows version.