Even if you don’t mind targeted ads, the real danger of tracking cookies is that they store a significant amount of personal information that can be used with malicious intent by hackers. Other websites can then access that information to customize (re-target) their ads to your particular preferences. A website can collect your browsing or shopping preferences and store them in a small text file called a tracking cookie. With the more expensive and smaller SSD drives installed on modern laptops, free space has once again become valuable.ĭid you read an article about an insurance company, only to be followed by insurance ads on every website you visit? That is, in part, thanks to those tracking cookies. These files do not generally affect your computer performance, but with time, they can take up a lot of valuable space.
Junk files are temporary files that were created by different programs on your computer but were never removed after they were no longer needed.
