In the context of itwissen.info, the term surfing is about Internet surfing. It is the successive calling up of web pages. The executing Internet user is called surfer or Internet surfer. Internet surfing means clicking from one web page to another by mouse tracking. Such clicking can be random, it can be methodical and it can be performed by search queries, search words, by external and internal links or by the displayed banners. The applicationinterface is a web browser. With each mouse click, the surfer is redirected from one server to the next. Like all activities on the Internet, web surfing is logged. For this purpose, cookies, which are small text programs, are deposited by web servers on the personal computer of the web client. The cookies operate in the background and record user behavior and important personal data. For example, the user's IP address, the web pages visited, the frequency with which the web pages are viewed, the duration of the visit, the
