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Re: White House quietly exempts YouTube from cookie privacy rules
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:14:13 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Poortinga <ip () k9sql us> Date: January 23, 2009 10:56:19 AM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] White House quietly exempts YouTube from cookie privacy rules
While such technologies clearly exist, the vast majority of users of the WH ste will have no knowledge of them and no idea what to do. So while we, theknowledgeable, will preserve our privacy, the public MAY not djf
Dave, not only does most of the public know liitle about browser cookies and virtually nothing about managing them, I'd like to point out that YouTube and most video sites use Flash which has it's own cookies called Local Shared
Objects (LSOs) <http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/articles/lso/>which can only be managed at the Adobe web site or using a browser plugin
like Objection. -- Bob Poortinga K9SQL Bloomington, IN US ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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