ONLINE journalism Assignment

Name: CENOYAMBA DANLADI
Reg no: U17TJ2001
Course title: ONLINE JOURNALISM
Assignment questions: Define cookie and explain it’s advantages and disadvantage on the internet.
A Cookie also known as computer cookie can be define as a simple text file that keeps record of your visit to a particular site, so as often as you visit that site, cookie keeps record of your visit by saving your email/URL. It can also be defined as a text file that website owners create so as to track whoever visits the sites, it takes your email and store it in the browser. A computer cookie is more formally known as http cookie they are also time bound. Cookies are files stored on your hard drive the more you surf the web, the more cookies you accumulate
Advantages
It helps the website you visit to keep track/record it things you had access to, so whenever you loss your file you can go back to the site you visited to retrieve it.
They occupy less memory and do not need to send back data to the server.
They are persistent: when cookies are set on clients browser they can persist for days
They do not only help you remember the sites you where in, they also remember the Information about forms.
Disadvantages
Third parties might advertise or represent you online without your knowledge and that can implicate you or damage your files.
You can manually encrypt and decrypt the cookies but it requires extra coding. You can affect the application performance because of the time that is required for encryption and decryption.
Cookies can not store complex information as they are limited to simple string information.many limitations exist on the size of cookie text.
The cookies stored over time can take up a bit storage space, your browser can start and run slower, your system may lag or hang up.