One third of all Internet users deletes cookies once a month, this being a great concern to advertisers that more an more tend to use Flash Cookies to further continue monitoring their visitors.
According to researchers ( Social Science Research Network (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446862) )
more than half of all top 100 sites now uses Flash Cookies, without users knowing this and/or without users explicit consent.
From 100 tested sites only 4 admitted they used this form of tracking.
Flash Cookies aren't only unknown to the general user, they can only be managed through an Adobe website.
Macromedia.com (http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html)
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