Abstract
This paper examines cookies and their presumably unseen presence on today’s computers. This report aims to comprehend and understand exactly which types of cookies there are and how many cookies a user can expect from the world’s most traffic heavy websites, with the intention of identifying cookies who sync data between other websites, hosting the same cookie. In addition this project explains the basic mechanics of web servers and their relations with the client computers, with the intention of giving fundamental understanding of the mechanics underlying the user interface.
