[문 12. ～문 13.] Internet cookies are small information files that websites put onto personal computers.

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3. Some people believe that cookies will damage their computers, but this is not true. For online sellers, cookies provide an important advantage.

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Online shoppers should know that the cookies have advantages both for them and for merchants.

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The main function of cookies is to give Internet users quick access to webpages. For example, because of cookies, customers on e-commerce sites can keep items in their shopping carts while they look at additional products and then check out with ease whenever they are ready. Cookies also allow a website to remember personal information such as a consumer's name, home address, email address, and phone number, so that these items do not have to be reentered.

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Some people believe that cookies will damage their computers, but this is not true. For online sellers, cookies provide an important advantage.

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They allow the sellers to collect information about visitors to a website. Merchants can then use this customer data for advertising and other marketing purposes. Although there are concerns about what sellers might do with private information, it is clear that cookies have their benefits.