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Cookie vs Supercookie - What's the difference?

cookie | supercookie |

As nouns the difference between cookie and supercookie

is that cookie is (label) a small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in) while supercookie is (computing|informal) a data store on a user's computer that can be accessed by websites and used as a more persistent form of cookie.

cookie

English

(wikipedia cookie)

Alternative forms

* (uncommon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A small, flat, baked cake which is either crisp or soft but firm (often with chocolate chips, candies or nuts mixed in).
  • (label) A specifically American-style (l).
  • (label) A bun.
  • An (l), web cookie.
  • (label) A (l).
  • A young, attractive woman.
  • The female genitalia.
  • * 2009 , T. R. Oulds, Story of Many Secret Night , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781409285816, unnumbered page:
    • Her legs hung over the edge and the large towel covered just enough of her lap to hide her 'cookie' .
  • * 2010 , Lennie Ross, Blow me , Lulu.com (2010), ISBN 9781257133819, page 47:
    • If she wanted to compete in this dog-eat-pussy world, she had to keep up her personal grooming, even if it meant spreading her legs and letting some Vietnamese woman rip the hair off her cookie every other week.
  • * 2014 , (Nicki Minaj), "" (Clean Version), (w) :
    • Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.

    Synonyms

    * (cake) (l), (l) (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , (l) , , (l)}}

    See also

    * (l) (UK) * * * ----

    supercookie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, informal) A data store on a user's computer that can be accessed by websites and used as a more persistent form of cookie.
  • * 2005 , Brian Lesser, Giacomo Guilizzoni, Robert Reinhardt, Programming Flash Communication Server
    • The SharedObject class is familiar to many Flash programmers as a way to create a kind of supercookie ; a local shared object (LSO) can store ActionScript data on the client between sessions.
  • * 2005 , "Boojum", Supercookie'' (on Internet newsgroup ''microsoft.public.security )
    • While doing an online security scan, I was told I can (SIC) a vulnerability because of the presence of a supercookie .
  • * 2009 , "Billy", Adobe's Flash Player sets "supercookies"'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.comp.freeware )
    • I use the SR Ware Iron Browser, always on Incognito, and set to remove all data when i close the pane. I also remove all records after each day. Can you tell me, does this remove the supercookies ?