Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users | Media Maverick - CNET News

Suit alleges Disney, other top sites spied on users | Media Maverick - CNET News:

"'Flash Cookies' are not affected when users try to remove traditional cookies with their browser's privacy controls.



'What's even sneakier,' Wired.com reporter Ryan Singel wrote then, is 'several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called 're-spawning,'' This means that a user may kill a cookie, but some technologies will bring it back to life by assigning that cookie's unique ID to a new cookie."