Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die 189
GMGruman wrote in to say "Microsoft embarrassed itself last week when it got caught using 'zombie cookies' — a form of tracking cookies that users can't delete, as they come back to life after you've 'killed' them. Microsoft says it'll stop the 'aberrant' practice. But Woody Leonhard says you ain't seen nothing yet. It turns out HTML5 offers a technical mechanism to give zombie cookies a new lease on life — and the Web browsers' private-browsing features can't stop them."
"Caught with hand in the cookie jar" joke here (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft says it'll stop the abhorrent practice
Fixed that for them.
Actually, an even more accurate quote might be:
Microsoft "says" it'll stop the abhorrent practice