Cookies: browser modification by Internet users 2015 to 2016

This statistic presents a percentage distribution of Internet users according to whether or not they made modifications to the configuration of the web browser to prevent or limit cookies in Spain during the years 2015 and 2016. Cookies or computer cookies are small amounts of information sent by a website and stored in the user's browser so that the website can consult the activity of the same. In 2016, 31 percent of Spanish Internet users decided to modify their browser settings to limit or prevent cookies.

Percentage distribution of Spanish Internet users depending on whether or not they modified their web browser settings to prevent or limit cookies in 2015 and 2016

Characteristic	Modifying the browser	No browser modification
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Release date

October 2016

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Region

Spain

Survey time period

2015 to 2016

Number of respondents

23,887 homes surveyed

Age group

16-74 years

Special properties

During the 12 months prior to the survey

Supplementary notes

* The data for the year 2015 were taken from the previous edition of the same survey.

In both years, the dwellings of sections in first interviews and the houses for which no telephone was available, were surveyed through a personal interview with a tablet (CAPI). The rest of the houses were surveyed by telephone recording the survey in an electronic questionnaire from the CATI centers. The field work was carried out throughout the Spanish territory. For more information on the methodology go to the link .

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