03-08-2011, 09:24 PM
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The Affiliate Cookie is Dead!
Sorry, but if you believe in cookies ? you are seriously kidding yourselves.
I am going to estimate, without asserting any verifying fact, that at 1/3 of your payment cookies are being rejected by the modern browsers' private browsing features or the cookies are deleted regularly manually or by some program (window wiper or other).
To make matters worse for you; http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381650,00.asp
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Adobe on Tuesday released Flash Player 10.3 beta, which provides users with greater control over the program's privacy and storage options.
Going forward, users will be able to clear local storage - sometimes known as "Flash cookies" - on versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox. "Cookies" are little bits of data collected about your Internet activity. They can be useful - like remembering passwords and settings on sites that you surf to frequently - but there are also concerns about targeted advertising and how much data is really collected.
Web cookies can be deleted, but management of cookies inside products like Flash are a bit more complex. Adobe said Tuesday, however, that Flash Player 10.3 Beta "integrates control of local storage with the browser's privacy settings," something the company promised in January.
As a result, "users will have a simpler way to clear local storage from the browser settings interface, similar to how they clear their browser cookies today," Adobe said. (empathsis added.)...
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The writing has been on the wall for some time ? now the new flash program will allow users to easily manage their "Flash Cookies (LSO [Local Shared Objects]) Read DELETE or REJECT ....
The walls of the last "cookie refuge" have tumbled down ...
"Paint it Black," RIP
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