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jordinl on Sept 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook is scaring me

So it seems the solution would be to have different browser profiles. For instance, one for regular browsing, one for FB and one for gmail?

cpeterso on Sept 24, 2011 [–]

Flash cookies ("shared objects") are across shared across all browsers and browser profiles. If FB uses Flash cookies, you could log into FB on Firefox and they can still track you in Chrome!

jordinl on Sept 25, 2011 | [–]

scary...

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