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  2. Enable cookies in your web browser - AOL Help

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    Enable cookies in your web browser. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer by your web browser. With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! By default, cookies are automatically enabled ...

  3. HTTP cookie - Wikipedia

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    t. e. HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie ...

  4. Clear cookies on a web browser - AOL Help

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    Clearing the cookies in your browser will fix most of these problems. • Clear your browser's cookies in Edge. • Clear your browser's cookies in Safari. • Clear your browser's cookies in Firefox. • Clear your browser's cookies in Chrome. Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL services, but is no longer supported by Microsoft.

  5. Session hijacking - Wikipedia

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    Session hijacking. In computer science, session hijacking, sometimes also known as cookie hijacking, is the exploitation of a valid computer session —sometimes also called a session key —to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to ...

  6. Authentication - Wikipedia

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    Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicating a person or thing's identity, authentication is the process of verifying that ...

  7. Clear cache on a web browser - AOL Help

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    Clearing the cache deletes these files and fixes problems like outdated pages, websites freezing, and pages not loading or being unresponsive. • Clear your browser's cache in Edge. • Clear your browser's cache in Safari. • Clear your browser's cache in Firefox. • Clear your browser's cache in Chrome. Internet Explorer may still work ...

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    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. Digital identity - Wikipedia

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    A digital identity is data stored on computer systems relating to an individual, organization, application, or device. For individuals, it involves the collection of personal data that is essential for facilitating automated access to digital services, confirming one's identity on the internet, and allowing digital systems to manage interactions between different parties.