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• What is a cookie and what are the benefits of using them?
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• What is the lifetime of a cookie?
  A cookie is made up of a name and content, and its lifetime can be different depending on the purpose for which it is placed. There are cookies used exclusively for a single session, which are not retained after the user leaves the website, and permanent cookies, which are retained and reused each time the user returns to that website, but can be deleted at any time by the user, with predefined validity periods.