Are Flash Cookies Tracking Your Online Activities?
Tracking Cookies have a questionable reputation and use throughout the Internet, and with their tip-toeing around the issue of privacy management, it’s no wonder Flash cookies are a great mystery to many computer users.
Currently it would seem new light has dawned on the matter of cookies in Adobe’s Flash, according to a paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
The trouble seems to have started with a large number of users deleting their browser HTTP cookies periodically, which makes it difficult for mostly commerce sites to track the number of unique visitors accurately. Flash cookies have been a solution that fills in the missing link for sites suffering from this loss of data.

