How to block or enable cookies in Internet Explorer for specific website.

When you browse or surf any website, they collect the information about your browser type, your IP address, operating system and the web pages you are visiting etc. This all information is transmitted by your browser. Which is very useful for finding your activities and habits. For this purpose, the websites you visit send a piece of data which contains a unique identification code which is stored on your web browser, Which can be read back from that web browser. This piece of data is called cookies. Although these cookies are very beneficial for above said purposes but they can also be used to hack your important private information or passwords.

Most of the user thinks, it is always safe to block cookies in your internet browser. But for browsing some websites, the cookies acceptance should be enabled. To make an exception or change settings for cookie acceptance in browser, you can change Internet Explore settings to enable or block specific cookies. For this purpose the following steps are given:-

1. Go to Tools and then Internet options in Internet Explorer.

2. Click on Privacy tab. Adjust slider given under the settings to Medium. At this level the cookies from trusted sites are always accepted and are blocked from suspicious websites

3. Press Advanced tab. And check the override automatic cookie handling. Also check First party cookies and third party cookies both as Accept. Also check the Always allows session cookies option to accept the cookies especially to browse financial institutions websites. Besides this if you want to notify you about your choice to accept cookies, you can also select Prompt option also.

4. Press OK

If you want to enable or disable cookies for certain websites, you can create Block or Allow list.

1. Go to Internet options in your Internet explorer.

2. Click Tools> Privacy> Sites.

3. Put the URL or website, whose cookies you want to be block or allow. And click on Block or Allow as per your choice.

4. Press OK, You can add or delete any website from this list to accept the cookies.