# Cookie Collector

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In this article we explain how the Cookie Collector works. With this feature you can significantly **improve the reliability of your browser profiles**. Social media platforms and almost all other websites can identify whether cookies are already present in the browser history. If a browser profile does not yet have cookies, a new login will be identified more often as striking than when you have a browser profile that already has a browsing history.

### How to start using the Cookie Collector

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#### Open the Cookie Collector

Click on the bullet icon on the right side of a browser profile and choose **Cookies > Cookie Collector**. The Cookie Collector will pop up.
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#### Add websites to browse

Fill in a number of websites on which the Cookie Collector should start browsing (for example: <https://youtube.com> and <https://reddit.com>). Based on the entered URLs the Cookie Collector starts browsing and generates a browser history.
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#### Start collecting

Click the **Start collecting** button and the Cookie Collector will start collecting cookies.
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The URL entered in the Cookie Collector must have the following format: <https://nameofwebsite.com> - it’s important to **include https\://**, otherwise the Cookie Collector won’t work.
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### Advanced settings / configurations

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* **Example list:** If it does not matter for which websites the Cookie Collector builds up a browser history, you can choose to collect cookies based on an Example list. This list has been compiled from the most famous websites. The list can be accessed by clicking the **Load Example List** button.
* **Crawling options:** Enable the Cookie Collector to randomly visit the list of filled-in websites, randomly click links on the visited websites and scroll down pages. We recommend leaving all options on as it increases the reliability of the cookie history.
* **Other Options:** Enable automatic muting of audio played on a website, switch on headless mode so the Cookie Collector runs without being visible, and use the Chrome extension to accept cookies.
* **Time settings:** Set how long the Cookie Collector should work by entering the number of minutes in the box.

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If you have any additional questions about the Cookie Collector after reading this article, please contact our [support department](https://incogniton.com/contact/).&#x20;
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