Half of all top 100 sites abuses Flash Cookies to revive deleted normal cookies!

Started by Skhilled, August 14, 2009, 11:03:03 PM

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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 )
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

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