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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1347175" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>In most cases, cookies will store any piece of data that needs to be saved between visits. Think of how often a site remembers something. Multiply that since many domains that you don't <em>directly</em> visit will create cookies to store settings (such as ads). When you start to consider how often something stores a piece of information, 1000 doesn't seem so unreasonable (especially if you never delete them). For instance, I have a cookie stored from Adobe which holds the locale such that anytime I visit their website, I'm directed to the appropriate page for my locale. As you can see, it can be something very simple.</p><p></p><p>Let me use myself as an example. I live in two browsers: Opera and Chrome. Chrome has stored 1853 cookies from 708 different domains. I don't have a count for Opera but the number will be huge (the list is quite long).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1347175, member: 71075"] In most cases, cookies will store any piece of data that needs to be saved between visits. Think of how often a site remembers something. Multiply that since many domains that you don't [I]directly[/I] visit will create cookies to store settings (such as ads). When you start to consider how often something stores a piece of information, 1000 doesn't seem so unreasonable (especially if you never delete them). For instance, I have a cookie stored from Adobe which holds the locale such that anytime I visit their website, I'm directed to the appropriate page for my locale. As you can see, it can be something very simple. Let me use myself as an example. I live in two browsers: Opera and Chrome. Chrome has stored 1853 cookies from 708 different domains. I don't have a count for Opera but the number will be huge (the list is quite long). [/QUOTE]
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