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Company Develops Way to Restore Cookies
The company behind those floating ads that dance across Web pages has developed a way to restore the data profiles that many privacy-conscious users try to delete from their computers.
Using the product, when a Web site discovers a cookie missing, it can look for a backup in Flash and restore the cookie.
Richard M. Smith, a privacy and security consultant in Cambridge, Mass., was critical of United Virtualities.
“Companies should respect people’s choices,” he said, “If a consumer makes the effort of getting antispyware software, they don’t want this stuff.”
Macromedia responded by issuing instructions for turning the profile system off: http://www.macromedia.com/go/52697ee8.
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