Cookies are delicious, depending on your palate. Some like sugar, I’m partial to oatmeal raisin. Others may prefer chocolate chip, and advertisers like the digital ones. And while the wording must be confusing for many, many people, there is no shortage of digital cookies. The majority of modern websites rely extensively on several different types of cookie to provide their users with services. Some are completely innocent, others may be more insidious. The thing is, a cookie by any other name is still a cookie, although the end-user may not realize it.

Remember a time when you perused several websites searching for items you wanted to buy? It could have been household items, beauty products or electronics. Long after buying the products, you notice ads related to the items you searched for, or even have already bought, popping up every time you…