Question

"Cookies cannot reliably identify individual users." Which of the following is the reason for the statement shown above? Group of answer choices Cookies assigned by Web servers are prone to duplication. The US government has banned the use of cookies for user identification. The explosion in Internet-enabled mobile devices has resulted in an acute shortage of IP addresses. Internet service providers assign arbitrary IP addresses to devices accessing the Internet from the same network. Individual users use different browsers on the same computer to surf the Web.

Answer 1

Answer: Individual users use different browsers on the same computer to surf the Web.

Explanation:

Cookies are referred to as the text files that contains small pieces of data such as username and password which can be used in the identification of the computer of the user when the user uses a particular network.

The main reason why cookies cannot reliably identify individual users is due to the fact that individual users use different browsers on the same computer to surf the Web.