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Using Flash instead of cookies?


By Jason Meserve, NetworkWorld.com, 04/04/05

Slashdot has an interesting post about Web marketers replacing the browser cookie, which is often deleted by users, with Flash MX's Persistent Identification Element (PIE) as a more reliable means of tracking the habits of Web surfers. Fortunately for you privacy nuts, there is a way to disable PIE.

The bigger question: Why are all these things named after food? PIE, Cookie... what's next, pizza?

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