In the PrivacyChoice Index of Tracking Companies, we show when we've seen an ad network use html5 local storage.

http://www.privacychoice.org/companies/all

To contribute a report of this practice, let us know at contact@privacychoice.org

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Looks like Apple wants to take a page out of Google's book, and could you blame them? :P

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Google for LSO Flash Cookies and you'll see one approach.

For the Firefox browser, google BetterPrivacy extension

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And this is different from Flash Cookies how?

Currently the only 100% method of deleting Flash Cookies, is to:

~ be a Linux or Unix user; (Can you do this with Mac OS X?)

~ using a browser that does not put tracking stuff in other places that you can not control (Firefox is one, not Google Chrome or Internet Explorer, fyi there are over 100+ other browsers);

~ use a soft link and redirect the Flash Cookies to /tmp (gets deleted when you reboot and/or turn off your Linux PC), (i.e. ln -s /tmp/linfl ./.macromedia and ln -s /tmp/linfl ./.adobe )

Still in that situation the Flash cookies are there tracking your surfing between reboots. Here is the link on how to do this with Linux, (/tmp is mentioned in the comments and worked great for me.):

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1725591/banish-flas
-cookies-forever-linux

So for HTML5 we will be required to determine where they put any "spy-ware-cookies-flash-or-html5" and delete them as well. What else is new.

Just say "No" to "security through obscurity" and/or "false senses of security" by tools that say they delete things (flash cookies) but do not delete them 100%!

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awe gee; sadly, as you know, Windows is not Linux. Yea symlinks (or hardlinks) allow some need stuff for sure.

The point is, GIVEN a specific system,

• is the user aware of cookies
• or where they ARE stored

An F18a is faster than a Piper Cub too, but that's not germane is it?

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