A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can leave on your computer through your browser. A lot of sites use cookies to keep track of their returning visitors and perform basic functions like checking if a user is logged in. Cookies can be switched off manually in all browsers but this will result in a certain funcionality to not be available anymore.

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