Windows 10: The Case of the Mysterious Cookies!

I'm hoping that the experts that browse these pages can help. I'm running Windows 10 ver 1903. I use Firefox 68 for browsing and my default search engine is Google. Despite MS's best efforts I do not use Edge, nor do I use Bing.


Even though I do not use Edge or Bing, cookies from Bing seem to appear in the list of cookies that are reported in CCleaner.


When I use Firefox's Clear Data feature (in aboutreferences#privacy / Cookies and Site Data) these Bing cookies are left behind. I conclude that these cookies are not being collected by F/Fox but that some process(es) are putting Bing cookies on my computer, and that these are not generated through my Firefox/Google browsing combo.


Any ideas what's generating these Bing cookies, and how it can be stopped? Incidentally this cookie thing is not constrained just to a single Win 10 computer; it's happening on all 4 Windows 10 ver 1903 systems in our household.


These are examples of the cookies:


bing.com

login.live.com

www.bing.com

www2.bing.com


Grateful thanks



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Issues with enabling cookies in Internet Explorer 11

Hello,

Before proceeding could you please answer few questions:

• 
  When you say “but the program seems to doubt it” what exactly are you referring to?
  
• 
  Do you get any error message?
  
• 
  What are the steps you have followed to allow cookies?
  

I suggest you to follow the steps mentioned In the article to allow Cookies and check if it helps. Refer to the below link:

Delete and manage cookies

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cookies???

Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome
Clear, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome - Computer - Google Chrome Help

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1. On your computer, open Google Chrome.
2. In the top right, click the Menu
   
   .
3. Click Settings > Show advanced settings.
4. In the "Privacy" section, click Content settings.

1. Under "Cookies," click All cookies and site data.
2. To delete all cookies, click Remove all.

• To delete a specific cookie, hover over a site, then click the
  
  that appears to the right.
• You can also choose to remove all cookies created during a specific time period.

 

How to Allow Cookies on the computer.

Hi Greg,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

To have better clarity on the issue, answer the below-listed questions and get back to us.

1. In which browser are you trying to allow the cookies?
2. Do you get any error message while allowing the cookies?
3. What is the operating system that you have installed on your computer? (To check the Version and Edition of your Windows, you can refer
   
   Which Windows operating system am I running?).

Meanwhile, try the below methods and see if this helps.

Method 1: Allow Cookies on Internet Explorer.

If you are trying to allow the cookies on Internet Explorer, then you can follow the section
Block or allow cookies mentioned in
Delete and manage cookies and see if this helps.

Method 2: Allow Cookies on Microsoft Edge.

Step 1: Launch Microsoft Edge > Click on the
(3 dots) toolbar button > Click on Settings.

Step 2: Then, scroll down and click on View advanced settings.

Step 3: Under View advanced settings, scroll down and under
Cookies, select Don't block cookies from the drop-down list.

Hope it helps.

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