Even if you delete normal tracking cookies regularly to evade tracking by snooping sites and eager advertisers, little-known Flash cookies may be making an end run around your attempts to preserve ...

Flash cookies aren't normally removed when regular cookies are deleted. But the latest version of Adobe Flash lets users of Internet Explorer get rid of unwanted cookies. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

You may have used the Disk Cleanup utility to delete your browsing history, cache and cookies. Alternatively, you may have used the Delete Browsing History via IE ...

(WIRED)-- More than half of the Internet's top websites use a little known capability of Adobe's Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the ...

UC Berkeley researchers who exposed how the net’s top sites use a little-known feature of Flash to track users can proudly notch their belts: Quantcast, one of the largest online tracking and ...

Flash cookies: the bane of Internet users’ experience ever since it became public that companies were using them to track users—completely separate from normal browser cookies. It’s not easy for ...

Flash cookies placed by many of the most popular Web sites are being used to track site visitors, even going so far as to re-create http tracking cookies after they’re deleted by privacy-conscious ...

Web video company Metacafe has settled a class-action privacy lawsuit by agreeing that it won't use Flash cookies to recreate users' deleted HTTP cookies. The company also promised to stop ...

A third suit has been filed over the use of Flash cookies, a type of cookie that's harder to delete than the more familiar browser cookies. The suits allege that the companies that use them - in this ...

Adobe’s Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they’ve restricted the data collection, according ...

The more I use Adobe Flash, the more I understand why Steve Jobs hates it. I can’t tell you how many times a misbehaving Flash video has crashed my browser and/or slowed my system to sludge. Happens ...

More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash ...