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New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors

Posted by timothy on from the hi-there-we-remember-you dept.

bigtallmofo writes "According to Jupiter Research, 58% of web surfers deleted cookies from their system in 2004. This has sent a loud message to marketers in regard to consumer's preference as to tracking their online activities. The marketers have responded with PIE. Persistent Identification Element (PIE) is a technology that uses Macromedia's Flash MX to track you even without using cookies. Macromedia has created a page to instruct users on how to disable this."

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  1. Re:Advertising is destroying Flash by Peyna · · Score: 0, Troll

    Flash was once a rather nice delivery system for animated content

    Never was. Never will be.

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  2. "the user is trusted" WRONG WRONG WRONG by geekoid · · Score: 1, Troll

    The machine is trusted. You have no idea who is sitting behind that keyboard.
    Cookies have madeit easy to get into someboies system, and they are not secure.

    How are people suppose to know a site is tracking a user in a way they don't want to be tracked?

    Most cookies are used for tracking, most people do not want to be tracked.

    Cookies can be hijacked.

    Web administers put them there becasue they are too stupid to do it without cookies.

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