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WSJ Warnings About Cookies Carry Cookies

Posted by samzenpus on from the pot-meet-kettle dept.

itwbennett writes "The Wall Street Journal has 'a pretty useful section tracking privacy issues, privacy protection tools and the threats thereof from online marketers, from the point of view and on the technical level of a relatively savvy consumer,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty. The downside: He discovered that reading two stories from the WSJ's privacy section left behind deletion-resistant Flash cookies."

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  1. Re:Cookies carrying cookies?! by ZeRu · · Score: 3, Interesting

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