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Many advertising companies and search engines put a tracking cookie in your computer to track your activities.

What information is tracked

Which sites you visit and information like your clicks and time spend on one site can easily be tracked.

Why companies track this information

Companies track this information to help them create marketing plans and understand the consumer’s clicking and buying process.

It helps in affiliate industry to track down affiliate commissions.

Breach to privacy?

Yes and no, while most big companies do track down the information they have policies not to make it public and use it only to a certain extent.

You can change your browser settings to let cookies install or not on your computer. In most cases you will want to install a cookie so that you can leverage most of online services like email, social networking and anything which involves storing your information online.

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