* Frenzy Begins Over Cookie Alternative

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>From ClickZ News.
Sounds like bad news for all us end users.
(I went to the Macromedia site but could not find what the article mentions at the end: instructions 
on disabling this new form of commercial harrassment.)

* Frenzy Begins Over Cookie Alternative

A so-called 'Flash cookie' emerges as a viable alternative to the
ubiquitous, imperiled text files. A JupiterResearch study recently found
nearly 40 percent of Web users clear these text files from their machines
on a regular basis. Because of the enormous consequences of cookie deletion
for online marketing, analytics experts and ad technology vendors have
since begun overtly addressing the potential of the "Flash cookie."
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,1i2o,1,hrc4,a1ys,2wct,jote
ClickZ News, March 31, 2005