Where can you see the data that's been recorded by a tracking cookie?
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Published on 2012-03-31T03:35:50Z
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I've always read that cookies can, and do, store sensitive information such as OTHER websites that you've visited outside the one to which the cookie belongs.
I've started to read up about it and can see that it's persistent cookies which typically do this - and well I've started to look through cookie files on my computer - but I can't see any telling info in them! Just a few jumbled lines and not the scary urls of other sites that I'm looking for.
How do I view them? Or is the raw data of visited urls only ever stored on the server end of the site that's tracking me?
I'm on Win7 and can look at cookies from FF 12, Chrome 18, IE9 and Safari 5.1.
Thanks for illuminating this once and for all.
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