Just when you thought you had the whole cookie thing figured out and got confident that some mysterious corporation like Doubleclick could no longer track your movements on the net, like cooties, they are back. Let’s welcome our next contestant: the Flash Cookie!
I noticed something unusual while going through a privacy page today, and with a little bit of research via Google, here is what I discovered. Without trumpets or fanfare, without public announcement, and in most cases without any mention of this on their privacy page, a majority of websites have started to use a little-known feature of the common Adobe Flash Player plug-in to track user movements through the Internet. Adobe Flash can write files to your computer similar in nature to a cookie, a type of file called a Local Shared Object. These Super Cookies have been enhanced over what ordinary cookies can do.
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