When it comes to navigating we leave a trace of everything we do, something you probably don't want if you want to keep your share of anonymity on the internet. Cookies, as they are known, are files that the pages use to register each person, and that it is advisable to eliminate over time.
Any website makes use of this, but it is worth mentioning that it is the user who decides, once they have been, to delete the cookies and the history of everything. It is advisable to do this and clear the cache of certain applications if you want to keep your phone clean and with it your privacy.
We explain you how to remove cookies from your android phone, either using Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera or another of the many browsers available in the system. It is always recommended to follow the complete guideline, in addition to deleting all the history up to this moment.
What are cookies for?
Cookies are present on all web pages to record all the steps followed by the person at that time. This remembers the user's visit, remember preferences and offer content of your interest at all times, all based on the links visited so far.
A cookie from a website will remember the access and credentials used up to that moment, for example remembering the username if it had one. The password in this case will depend on the browser, it will tell you if you want to add it and access it quickly without having to enter the username and password.
For this reason, cookies will know the behavior of users on a page, if it is a buying and selling store, it will be able to remind the user if they have added things and thus finalize the purchase. But it's not the only thing a cookie does.It has a good number of functions.
How to delete cookies
The fundamental thing is to delete cookies from your mobile browser, whatever it is, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, the internal of your phone or any other. The process becomes similar in all of them, always entering the configuration, which will vary somewhat depending on the one you use.
Once you eliminate these well-known information cookies, it will not remember some things, although it is likely that you will have to delete the information from the app and clean the cache. With all this it will make you enter as a new user, always accepting the website cookies again.
If you want to delete cookies, do the following on your mobile device:
- Open the browser app you use as default, one of the many available, be it Chrome, Firefox, Opera, the integrated one of your terminal or another of those that are available
- Enter the three dots and then click on “Settings”
- In “Advanced settings”, click on “Privacy” (this can be changed for privacy and security) and wait for all the available options to load
- Go to “Clear browsing data” and select the “Delete cookies” box, this includes deleting the browsing data and those that do not serve us
- Depending on each browser, third-party cookies are blocked, but it does accept those that the site itself has, which in this case must be accepted in order to
The user is the one who must decide whether to delete the entire history, it is advisable that you do so, but yes, remember that you have to remember the username and password. It is possible that sometimes it is not convenient for us to do this, but it is recommended to start from scratch and delete everything.
Clear browser cache and data
Another formula for the browser to delete everything so far, including cookies and data navigation is to delete the data next to the cache. Any application accumulates a large amount of data over time, including the browser accumulates a good amount of megabytes, sometimes more than 150-200 megabytes.
This step is just as important as deleting the cookies from your browser, with this once you do it you will start from scratch, it is always advisable to do it from time to time. Once you decide to take this step, once you enter the sites You have to accept the cookies and entering the data of each page.
To clear your browser cache and data, follow these steps:
- The first thing is to know which browser you use more, if it is for example Google Chrome, focus on this and not on the others known as alternatives
- Access “Settings” and go to “Applications”, click on the latter
- Open the app you use as a browser, in our case Google Chrome on a Huawei device
- Inside it check the “Storage” option, click on it and click on “Delete data”, in others it says “Manage space”, here once inside click on “Delete all data”
- Finally, click on “Empty cache”, this will make it do a quick reset and the application will improve the process speed when you browse the different pages that you usually access on a daily basis
After deleting both the data and the memory, if you reopen the application it will ask you on each page accept cookies from scratch. It is convenient that you do it in all, these well-known "cookies" provide information and the site will act quickly with what you were looking for at that moment precisely.
Wipe phone to clear cookies, data and more
Tools when cleaning you have many, each of the manufacturers has decided to include their own for their use, which is to eliminate everything and free up space. This application is usually fast, it also does a general cleanup, be it the browser, the phone and those duplicate photos.
Huawei, for example, has an internal application, it is called “Optimizer” and it has different settings to clean, although we will focus on the first one. For example, if you have a Xiaomi, if you activate the developer options You will have the app, although it is also visible on the main screen.
