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Cookies Control Removal Guide
If you see Cookies Control in the list of your Chrome extensions, and you do not remember adding it there, you must have recently installed a freeware app that came bundled with other applications. This is a very common occurrence, and users seldom understand the dangers behind adding free extensions to their browsers.
Computer security experts recommend removing Cookies Control from your system as soon as possible because the longer this extension remains on your computer, the more damage it may cause. Of course, it cannot destroy your computer, but cyber criminals could make use of it for their own malevolent purposes.
While the extension has at least two legal sources, we would like to focus on the other channels this extension uses to spread around. We believe that you must have downloaded this extension in a software package. If you indulge in freeware downloads often, you must visit file-sharing websites, too. On these sites, you can easily find various applications that are available there free of charge. Often, users do not think much when they download programs from such pages. However, file-sharing sites tend to host third-party installers that bundle several programs together. So when you download and install this one program you want, you may also add several others to your system, without even realizing it.
How to know whether you have unwanted applications on-board? You can check the list of installed programs or simply scan your computer with the SpyHunter free scanner. Relying on a powerful antispyware tool is always a good idea because it will detect all the potential threats on your computer, and you will be able to remove them immediately. Usually, it is possible to remove the unwanted programs manually, but if you find the task too tedious, you can rely on the same security app to do the job for you.
We should also mention why we think it is for the best to remove Cookies Control from your browser. The thing is that this extension can collect information on your web browsing history. According to its EULA, the program can show ads and even share private data with third parties. It says that “we also use third party advertisements on cookies-control.com to support our site. Some of these advertisements may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on your site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.”
As you can obviously see, it is more than ironic that a program that promises to protect your privacy by blocking out cookies ends up using the same cookies to spam you with commercial content. Therefore, you should not tolerate this any longer. Remove Cookies Control at once and then look for ways to ensure that your computer remains protected against similar intruders in the future. Your system’s security should be one of your top priorities.
How to Delete Cookies Control
- Press Win+R and type %LocalAppData%. Press OK.
- Open Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions.
- Remove the cfkpefbllpconnkfpdgagkifmflckkdp folder.
- Navigate to Google\Chrome\User Data\Default.
- Remove the Preferences, Secure Preferences, and Web Data files.
- Press Win+R and enter regedit. Press OK.
- Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\PreferenceMACs\Default\extensions.settings.
- On the right side, right-click and remove the cfkpefbllpconnkfpdgagkifmflckkdp value.
