The article ‘Cookies’ Cause Bitter Backlash in The Wall Street Journal is a must read if you are a computer user.  (If you aren’t a computer user, how are you reading this blog post? 🙂 ).  If you use an IPhone, you might want to read this twice.

Here is a little teaser from the article:

Another suit, filed earlier this month, accuses Fox Entertainment Group and the American idol.com website of using a new kind of cookie—known as a Flash cookie—that can “re-spawn” tracking files that users have deleted, without users’ knowledge.

This is the first I have read about flash cookies.  Wouldn’t you know Fox would be involved?  By the way, who is it that just bought The Wall Street Journal?

Update on October 25, 2010

I found the following article that was released on October 20, 2010 from PC Magazine.

Flash Cookie Cop: Protect Yourself from Insidious Flash Cookies

I am going to check it out.  Oops!, it is not free.  Costs $8.00.  Maybe I’ll wait until Firefox builds in the flash cop for free.

Update October 26, 2010

To fix this problem for free, visit the Adobe Flash Settings Manager. At that site you will be able to manage the flash cookies. Go through all the tabs and delete cookies that you wish to delete and change settings to the way you prefer them.