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What are benefits and limitations of using Cookies?Advantages:
- They are simple to use.
- Light in size, thus occupy less memory.
- Stores server information on client side
- Data need not to be sent back to server.
- Cookies persist for much longer period of time than a session.
Disadvantages:
- Since they are stored on the client side in plain text, they are not secure.
- Number of cookies that can be stored and their size is limited.
- They don't work if security level is set too high in browser.
- Some people might just disable cookies on their browsers.
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