https://unweb.org/tags/explainer/ Recent content in Explainer on unweb.org Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://unweb.org/what-your-browser-remembers-about-you-and-why-sites-show-you-a-different-web/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://unweb.org/what-your-browser-remembers-about-you-and-why-sites-show-you-a-different-web/ <p>Open a shop you&rsquo;ve visited before and it often greets you differently. Free shipping instead of a discount. A price that isn&rsquo;t the one your friend saw. Results ordered around what you clicked last week. None of it is random. Your browser told the site who you are before the page even loaded.</p> <p>It does this without asking, because that&rsquo;s what browsers are built to do. Remembering makes the web convenient: you stay logged in, your basket survives, pages load faster. The same memory is what sites use to recognise you.</p>