[WEB4LIB] * Frenzy Begins Over Cookie Alternative

[Rudy Leon]

I'm willing to expose my ignorance to get an answer I can use to
protect myself -- The ClickZ article discusses a "flash browser" and
the Macromedia discusses a Flash Player.... As far as I know, when I
have allowed Flash to install itself, I've never installed a player or
browser, or been given access to anything that controlled it. I'm on a
public computer at the moment (not my work or home computer) and
cannot find any such player installed....

Can anyone explain what I'm missing here?


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:52:46 -0800 (PST), laplend <laplend at monmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
> >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
> 
> 


-- 
Rudy Leon
Visiting Reference Librarian
Ames Library
Illinois Wesleyan University