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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. WSJ = idiots trying to write about tech... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear WSJ, you are a financial rag NOT a tech rag. Stop trying to be the Executive uncle that tries to look smart about everything but ends up looking foolish to us nephews that actually know the tech.

    I cant stand the "look I am smart" executive... executives are idiots, that is why they were promoted, the were doing too much damage down in the trenches so they had to be promoted to get them away from where real work was being done.

    P.S. sandboxie kills all these "super cookies" instantly. and only a fool runs his browser un-sandboxed.