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Re: Why does a Flash Cookie from wildlifecontrolexperts.com keep getting set on my machine?


From: Ned Fleming <ned () kaw us>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:21:18 -0500

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:35:06 -0400, Larry Seltzer
<larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:

FYI, go to the evercookie site and you'll get one from samy.pl. I tested
this in Chrome and the cookie manager there seems to integrate the Flash
cookies, so when you delete the samy.pl root it all goes away. They show
up as "Local Storage" and you can't view the contents, but you can remove
them.

Oh, dear me. I should have sent people to this link:

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/09/the_cookies_you.html

- or - 

http://bit.ly/cMHzft

Beg parding, your honor.

-- 

Ned

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