But you should know that once cookies are deleted, your browsing history on the specific websites will be deleted so you have to log in the websites again and reset your preference.įor example, if you clear the cookie of a shopping website, your username won't show and the items in your shopping carts will be cleaned. It is totally okay to remove cookies from your Mac. In short, cookies are files on your Mac to keep the information of what you've done on a website. You remember that sometimes when you return to a website, the site shows you the items you checked out last time or it keeps your username? That's because of the cookies.
When you visit a site again, your browser (Safari, Chrome, FireFox, etc.) sends the cookie to the website so that the site recognizes you and what you did on the last visit. Browser cookies, or web cookies, are small text files on your computer, which contain data about you and your preference from websites you visit.
