Even casual Internet users know that if you want to hold your privacy in check, it’s good practice to clear out your browser cookies every once in a while. Our recent coverage about “zombie” Flash ...

Despite lawsuits, bad publicity, and Adobe's promise to end their use in Flash, zombie cookies persist and could find a new host in HTML5 One year ago this week, I wrote about zombie cookies, ...

I just realized that the new preferred method of tracking web users is by using HTML5 cookies (along with Flash cookies). If you go to your /Users/<username>/Library ...

This article is excerpted from HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook and reprinted with permission of publisher Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional. The persistence of information in the visitor’s browser has ...

Researchers have found that new technologies such as HTML5 are being used by sites to store cookies and track visitors' web use. HTML5 is a language used for presenting web content, which makes it ...

Analysis firm Kissmetrics has killed a controversial system that installed unblockable respawning tracking files on user machines. Spotify and television site Hulu.com were using kissmetrics to track ...

Analysis firm Kissmetrics has killed a controversial system that installed unblockable respawning tracking files on user machines. Spotify and television site Hulu.com were using kissmetrics to track ...