The rest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10787882A legal challenge has been launched in the US against a number of websites amid claims that they were engaged in "covert surveillance" of users.
The lawsuit alleges that a number of firms, including Hulu, MTV, and Myspace, used a Quantcast Flash application to restore deleted cookies.
Cookies are text files used by web browsers to store user data.
The lawsuit says that the application was creating so-called "zombie cookies" from deleted files.
Flash? Aaaaaaagh!
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Re: Flash? Aaaaaaagh!
Time for the A/V boys to fix that problem. 
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Re: Flash? Aaaaaaagh!
The betterprivacy add on for firefox/palemoon seems to be able to keep them at bay, I recommend it to anyone who doesn't like flash cookies.
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