| Part 1-Your Private Data | Part 4a-Web Browser Cookies |
| Part 2-Web Browsing History | Part 4b-Managing Cookies |
| Part 3-Web Browser Cache | Part 5-Erasing Your Private Data |
When your Web browser loads a web page from the Internet, it stores the address (URL) and the title of that page. The Web browsing history is made up of the list of pages you have visited.
Scripting is used to let a Web page give internal information about the Web browser to a Web site. Javascript is a popular scripting language for accessing Web browser internal information. Javascript can also submit requests to other Web sites without the general user knowing anything was sent.
Once a Web page has sent your Web browser's history to a Web site, the Web site can see if you've been to a competitor of that site, or target advertising to the nature of your Web browsing history.
Some Web browsers allow you to disable scripting, which can limit what a Web page can do but does not offer complete security. In fact, this page cleverly shows a method to avoid scripting while still reading the Web browsing history.
If you want to brush away those bread crumbs showing which Web sites you've been to, erase your Web browser's history. Web browsers should give you an option to clear your browsing history. This will erase all of the files contained within your Web browsing history.
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