[UPHPU] shame on you Adobe

[Wade Preston Shearer]

On 12 Aug 2009, at 11:53, cole at colejoplin.com wrote:

> This is old news. It's meant as a developer thing only, as in RIAs  
> caching components. It's not tracking anyone's browsing data. There  
> is no big brother here.

That's not true from what I have read. Please correct me if I am  
wrong. What I read is that you can store any string of text in the  
object similarly to what you can do with normal browser cookies. If  
that is true then there is more to it than just RIAs caching  
components. You are right that the shared object itself isn't tracking  
anyone's browsing data, but web developers could use that "cookie" to  
track people. I used to work at Omniture. I understand tracking user's  
browsing patterns, user profile marketing, and dynamic, profile- 
optimized content. All the web author needs is a unique key. This was  
mostly the point of the article that I linked to in the first place.  
There are websites that are now reinstating the user's "session" even  
if they have cleared their cookies by means of a "backup" ID that they  
have stored in the flash object.

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