If you are surfing the web have you ever noticed that sometimes the
pop up ads at different web sites all start to look the same? I did.
So I began to write down what ads i was seeing at different sites and
determined that no., I wasn’t going crazy. I was seeing the same ads
time after time. Trying to figure out why I learned about flash
cookies.
http://machacks.tv/2009/01/27/flushapp-flash-cookie-removal-tool-for-os-x/
(from MacHacks.tv) Good reporting from Wired’s Epicenter clog:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
Flash Player Help
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_…
Well written article specifically about the use of flash cookies for tracking web users by Dan Tynan for IT World.
http://www.itworld.com/internet/118784/how-murder-a-flash-cookie-zombie