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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#privacy"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-01-28" status="final"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.33" date="2019-04-08" status="final"/>
    <revision pkgversion="40.alpha" date="2021-01-12" status="final"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2013</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="copyright editor">
      <name>Baptiste Mille-Mathias</name>
      <email its:translate="no">baptistem@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="copyright editor">
      <name>Federico Bruni</name>
      <email its:translate="no">fede@inventati.org</email>
      <years>2021</years>
    </credit>

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  <p>This work is licensed under a
  <link href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons
  Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</link>.</p>

</license>

    <desc>How do I delete browser cookies?</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Delete a cookie</title>

  <!-- Include an explanation about cookies. -->
  <p xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/">A browser <em>cookie</em> is a small piece of data sent from a website and
  stored on your computer while you are browsing that website. When you
  return to the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can
  be retrieved by the website to notify the website of your previous activity.
  Cookies are a common method used by web servers to know whether you are
  logged in to an account on a specific website or not.</p>

  <p>You can check if it left a cookie and delete it, but be aware that websites
  will usually install the same cookie again if you visit that website again.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select
      <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui><gui style="tab">Privacy</gui><gui style="button">Clear Personal
      Data</gui></guiseq>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the cookies that you want to delete. You can tick only a few
      domains or tick Cookies to select all domains at once.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Press <gui style="button">Clear Data</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <note style="important">
    <p>If you wish to delete the cookies a website has stored, you probably also
    wish to delete <link xref="data-personal-data">other data stored by that website</link>.</p>
  </note>

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