Reading notes for Code Fellows!
Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a website other than the one you are currently on. The most common third-party entities are advertisers, marketers, and social media platforms.
When a user opens an email, visits a website, views your digital ad, or takes any other action, they are actually requesting the server to download any tracking pixel which happens to be attached to the content. These tracking pixels are commonly used for marketing.
| Vocabulary Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cookies | a small piece of data stored on the user’s computer designed to be a device used to remember stateful information or to record the user’s browsing activity Wikipedia |
| authorization | the process of designating what resources a particular authenticated user has access to |
| access control | a system such as RBAC (role-based access control) which uses assigned roles which already have associateed profiles detailing the authorization, or resources they have access to. A given user then merely needs to be assigned one of these roles to define what acess or aurthorization they have. |
| conditional rendering | Conditional rendering is a term to describe the ability to render different user interface (UI) markup if a condition is true or false. In React, it allows us to render different elements or components based on a condition. Digital Ocean |