If on a Windows computer, close and re-open Firefox to save your changes.

Select “Cookies and Site data” and “Cached Web Content” and then click “Clear”.

Under the “Cookies and Site data” option, click the “Clear Data” button.

On the left-hand side, click on “Privacy & Security”.

In the top right-hand corner of Firefox, click on the icon with the three horizontal lines and select “Options”, on Mac it’s labeled “Preferences” from the list that opens.

However, deleting cookies works differently in each browser. If you do this once a month, for example, you will receive much less personalised advertising.

This frees up storage space and ensures that providers can’t track how you move around the web. This is explained in detail in Oscar’s video “What are cookies?”Īnyone who has accidentally clicked on “Accept all cookies” when opening a website can still delete unwanted cookies afterwards. Security & Data Protection How to delete cookies from your computerĬookies make websites recognise users when they re-visit a page.

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