You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again

[Sardonicus]

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again

"More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday.

Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not. "


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[corocoro]

My Sandbox deletes everything of a browsing session once I'm done - so no luck tracking me.

[zerogravity]

Just use crap cleaner. It's an awesome little piece of free software.

[veteran]

Nice info to pass along, thanks.

[bingo]

Great info, especially since it is pretty new and some people don´t know about it. But as other gents above mentioned, there are ways to get rid of them.

[worldbfree30]

Good info. Thanks for keeping us notified.

[shadowzone]

Thx Sardonicus. Can't wait until someone comes up with something that can be used to used the cookies against them.

[blahblah1234]

Wow thanks. I just downloaded crap cleaner after reading this.

[cedar]

Thanks for the heads up

[john88]

for firefox users: Better Privacy extension deletes flash cookies! ( win and linux)