How do I edit what information is collected about me by SE cookies?

Question

How can users edit what information is collected about them by SE, in particular information collected about them when they are NOT on EL&U:

If you use the Stack Overflow Network, both Stack Overflow and third parties will use cookies to track and monitor some of your activities on and off the Stack Overflow Network, and store and access some data about you, your browsing history, and your usage of the Stack Overflow Network. [Link here]

Users may be uncomfortable with SE collecting information about what they do when not on the SE metwork, or about them selling this information to third parties whose behaviour they cannot control (privacy policy or no privacy policy). I have looked at my account settings from the "Edit Profile & Settings" tab and cannot see any way to do disable this there.

Answer 1

I think you're asking about what SE has made available to you because of the recent GPDR laws in Europe (May 25, 2018).

• your user profile and settings are still editable as you noted by the usual way
• cookies are really an browser webpage device that helps among many things maintain state (so for example you won't have to log on again if you close the tab). It is not an editable thing. It keeps track . You may not be able to edit it but you can certainly delete it for any site so that a new cookie will be generated or turn them off for a site altogether. This may affect performance of that website. Each browser (Firefox, TE, Safari, etc) has it's own Cookie manager hidden somewhere deep inside that browsers settings.
• As to user frequency info, SE has a web page to download it at

https://english.stackexchange.com/users/prediction-data https://stackoverflow.com/users/prediction-data

All these links give you the same file. The json file that gets downloaded has the data for all SE sites. It's not really visiting behavior but more which tags you have more points with (which is behavior of a sort).

Note that like cookies, this is not data you can edit, it's just a passive recording of what tags you have points with.

I am in no way a representative of the SE dev team, so I do not know if this is it, or if more personal information will be added to this file (from inspection, my understanding of this file is that there is way more information about individual user behavior on this site that should be exposed per GDPR.