You can choose anything from the hour of day, day of week and the frequency. Furthermore, the ‘Scheduling’ feature allows CCleaner to clean your browser according to a schedule you choose.
‘Smart Cleaning’ allows you to automatically clean up a browser when you close it. In many respects, this is a cat-and-mouse game.ĬCleaner Professional has two features that help keep these tracking files off your machine. You can use CCleaner to remove these cookies, but they will return when you next visit the website. For example, some travel websites may charge higher prices for a holiday in ‘California’ if they know you were researching California on a previous visit (or with a partner website). If you return to the same website, the website reads this cookie, will record some information and may provide you with different content. As I’ve explained, tracking cookies are added when you arrive on a website. However, most websites also store cookies to record some information about you and your actions on a website, which is then used to inform advertisers, or even allow them to follow you as you visit different websites that cooperate with the same advertising networks. Other cookies are there to help website designers to build more straightforward web experiences, in other words for improving a website. Some cookies are perfectly okay and can actually be helpful, remembering which language you want to view the website in or if you prefer a ‘day’ or ‘night’ colour scheme, for example. Trackers (typically ‘cookie files’) are generated by websites you visit.