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{{See also|Web analytics#Problems with cookies}}
Cookies have some important implications for the privacy and anonymity of web users. While cookies are sent only to the server setting them or a server in the same Internet ___domain, a web page may contain images or other components stored on servers in other domains. Cookies that are set during retrieval of these components are called ''third-party cookies''. A third-party cookie, belongs to a ___domain different from the one shown in the address bar. This sort of cookie typically appears when web pages feature content from external websites, such as [[banner advertisement]]s. This opens up the potential for [[web tracking|tracking]] the user's browsing history and is used by advertisers to [[ad server|serve relevant advertisements]] to each user.
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