Tracking Cookie category archyve:

Fuq.com tracking cookies are able to collect information about your preferences and interaction with the website. Although there are far more intrusive and dangerous web cookies out there, this is a good time to review the cookies that are active on your browser, as well as to review your own interaction with certain websites. As you probably know already, not all websites are the same. Some are built to inform, and others are built to entertain. Some are built to respect your privacy, while others are built to exploit it. So, should you delete Fuq.com cookies because they are exploitative? We would not go as far as to claim that, but there is no doubt that there are reasons to remove these cookies. The Anti-Spyware-101.com research team has analyzed them thoroughly, and now we can tell you more about them. Please keep reading, and do not hesitate to leave a comment below if you want to ask us questions. Read more »

PointRoll might look suspicious to some users, but according to our researchers, it is nothing more than a simple tracking cookie, so there is no need to panic. It can collect various browsing information that later could be analyzed and then used to serve the user targeted advertisements. No doubt, such material can be annoying, and if you do not want the cookie to gather any information about your browsing habits at all, we would recommend erasing it from your browser. The task is not particularly tricky, and if you need any help while removing PointRoll, you can follow the instructions available at the end of the article too. For more information about the cookie, we would encourage you to read our full report. Read more »

xiti.com is a product of XiTi, the company which specializes in digital intelligence solutions. One of these solutions is “collecting reliable, relevant data” that fits special companies’ needs. Research conducted by specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com has shown that the company has a bunch of customers around the world. These include various media companies, e-commerce companies, companies providing financial services, and a great number of public institutions and corporations. Consequently, there must be hundreds of users who have encountered the xiti.com tracking cookie. If you belong to this group, it simply means that you have opened the website that belongs to the company using the service provided by XiTi, or, alternatively, you have clicked on the commercial advertisement produced by it. Either way, this tracking cookie is not dangerous, so it should not cause you any problems linked to your privacy and security. It is not harmful, so it is not a must to remove it too. Of course, it is up to you what to do with it. If you are worried that your privacy might be in danger due to the xiti.com presence on your system, remove it without further consideration. You do not need to be an expert to erase it from the system manually, believe us. Read more »

WebtrendsLive seems to be an old tracking cookie that could keep information about user’s interests. As you might be aware, such data can be used for marketing purposes or to be more precise, to show you targeted advertisements, offers, and so on. While there is nothing malicious in it and lots of various web pages do so too, some users may still not like the idea they are being tracked when browsing the Internet. If you do not want to be followed by websites that could be using WebtrendsLive, you should simply erase this cookie from your browser. The instructions below the text will explain how to eliminate it and if you need more information about the application you could find it by reading the rest of our article. Read more »

Tracking cookies are not considered serious threats, so do not freak out if you ever find one of them on your system. Gator is one of the thousands of tracking cookies that exist in the world. It is already quite old (it was detected in 2010), but some users might still encounter it. If you can locate it next to other cookies on the web browser you use, it is very likely that it was placed there some time ago. It is not considered malicious, but it might be used to keep/record some information about you, so feel free to remove Gator from your system to put an end to this activity. We cannot confirm that Gator is actively used to collect information these days since it is quite old, but it would not be worse if you remove it from your web browser. Tracking cookies might be placed on all users’ browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Luckily, users have the full freedom to manage all cookies themselves. We would suggest eliminating those that have been dropped on your system after visiting shady websites immediately. Instructions provided below will help you to get rid of Gator and all other undesirable browsing cookies manually. Read more »

The Bridgetrack cookie is a piece of data that has been employed to track users’ activity since at least 2009. It can record the user’s geographical location, as well as search history and interaction with virtual content. All of this information is supposed to help the service provider and advertising companies working along with it to present more personalized content. In some cases, this is not a good thing as malicious parties can use cookies to figure out what intrigues potential targets. This could be used to deliver scams successfully. Anti-Spyware-101.com research team does not have any data that would point to the cookie discussed in this report to be malicious. Does that mean that you should just let it in and do whatever it pleases? Before you do that, you want to understand how it works. If you continue reading this report, you will be able to decide whether or not you want to delete Bridgetrack from your web browser. If you have made up your mind already, the removal guide is below. Read more »

There is a good chance that a cookie called EPilot can be found on your browser. On Google Chrome, for example, you can find the list of all cookies at chrome://settings/siteData (enter this path into the address bar of the browser to access the list). The access to the cookies’ list on other browsers is a little more complicated, but we can help you delete EPilot. Why should you eliminate this HTTP/web/tracking cookie? In fact, we cannot tell you to do it, and it is your decision whether or not you wish to go through with it. That being said, there are some things that might weigh your decision, and our research team has thoroughly inspected the suspicious cookie to provide you with the most relevant information. If you choose not to remove it, you will at least have more information about it. If you decide that you do want to get rid of it, we have added a guide that should help you. Of course, we have created guides that show how to clear the most popular web browsers, and if you need our assistance clearing others, you should not hesitate to leave us a comment below. Read more »

You do not need to remove BlueMountain from your system because it is not malicious and it will not cause any harm to you, but, of course, you have the freedom to eliminate this tracking cookie if its presence bothers you a lot or you simply do not trust it. BlueMountain is, technically, not intruder either even though you do not know anything about its appearance because it is very likely that you have agreed that it would be dropped on the system yourself. It is hard to say the exact website you have visited, but it is very likely that BlueMountain is closely associated with https://www.bluemountaingroup.co.uk/ and https://www.bluemountain.com/. Legitimate websites inform users about the use of cookies and allow users to manage them. Of course, not all the users remember clicking the Accept Cookies button themselves. As a consequence, not all of them know why certain cookies are listed under the Cookies category on their web browsers. A bunch of users cannot explain why BlueMountain has been dropped on their systems too, and there is nothing surprising about that. BlueMountain is not considered to be malicious, but you can delete it from the system if you want to. Read more »

You need to be extremely selective about the cookies that are embedded in your web browsers because malicious ones exist too. The Xnxx cookie is our main focus in this report. Cookies are pieces of data that record information that can be both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable. The data is stored by the cookie so that whenever the user revisits the website, some data is already available. This data might include preferences, language settings, time zone, geo-location, and browsing history. Using this data, the website might be capable of presenting the visitor with a more relevant and personalized experience. For example, if you revisit an online shopping website, you might find recently viewed items, and shopping suggestions might reflect your previous browsing history. In most cases, cookies are harmless and even useful, but some are more intrusive and might require removal. Anti-Spyware-101.com research team recommends deleting Xnxx cookie because it can monitor activity and, potentially, record highly sensitive information. Continue reading to learn more. Read more »