Most people don't even know they exist or how much powerful they are when used "properly" from the trackers point of view. They are an advertisers wet dream compared to cookies just being a webmasters dream.
I think this is a little paranoid. Flash ads run inside of another Flash container that only provides one parent function call to the loaded swf. The ad running inside does not have the ability to set a Flash cookie because in order to do so it would have to reference a _parent.function. So unless the host page is in league with each and every advertiser automatically having their ad populated into the container, Flash cookies shouldn't be of any concern. Furthermore, you may need to study up on the sandbox that Flash cookies are restricted by.
Yes, it was nicely played and shows just how poorly though-out every one of screamingfist's arguments are. The amusing part is he still doesn't understand how completely he destroys his own arguments. He probably still won't and he'll just get more frustrated and do an even better job now.
(whispering to you) we get it, your desperate for attention and question your own worth. but never forget you are good enough, you're smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like you.
I think this is a little paranoid. Flash ads run inside of another Flash container that only provides one parent function call to the loaded swf. The ad running inside does not have the ability to set a Flash cookie because in order to do so it would have to reference a _parent.function. So unless the host page is in league with each and every advertiser automatically having their ad populated into the container, Flash cookies shouldn't be of any concern. Furthermore, you may need to study up on the sandbox that Flash cookies are restricted by.
There have already been flash apps in the wild which have the cookie behavior I wrote about and they did unscrupulous things with privacy related information and tracking. The ability to coordinate with a website displaying ads is merely a business negotiation with a trivial post-contract technical implementation.
It's not everywhere by any means. it's actually quite inconsequential at the moment as far as deployment. But the potential for explosive growth is quite real and it is the type of thing a leading ad supplier would find extremely attractive.
(whispering to you) we get it, your desperate for attention and question your own worth. but never forget you are good enough, you're smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like you.
Why thank you! You honor me with your slander!
I notice the content of your fight is gone, is that a capitulation finally?
You have nothing left to say that hasn't been said and refuted already?
There have already been flash apps in the wild which have the cookie behavior I wrote about and they did unscrupulous things with privacy related information and tracking. The ability to coordinate with a website displaying ads is merely a business negotiation with a trivial post-contract technical implementation.
Sure but I was responding exclusively to your assertion that Advertisers would be doing this. That is the part I disagree with. If a site that you visit is even in the legitimate advertising distribution network, automatically precludes them from engaging in that type of deceitful behavior.
Being someone who is involved in those types of business arrangements, I know that if a site and advertiser were to try to arrange some sort of collusion to exploit visitors, it would leak out immediately by way of the other parties involved such as brokers, artists, programmers, accountants, the works. It just doesn't happen.
And if it did happen, it would be because you were on a site that you shouldn't be on in the first place and there are probably much greater risks than being tracked by an advertiser associated with such a site.
I'm still not convinced this will necessarily be good for Google but I think the next logical step is a new and open format for images that is far superior to .png, .jpg, .gif. Open only makes sense to me if it's as good or better...
Sure but I was responding exclusively to your assertion that Advertisers would be doing this. That is the part I disagree with. If a site that you visit is even in the legitimate advertising distribution network, automatically precludes them from engaging in that type of deceitful behavior.
Being someone who is involved in those types of business arrangements, I know that if a site and advertiser were to try to arrange some sort of collusion to exploit visitors, it would leak out immediately by way of the other parties involved such as brokers, artists, programmers, accountants, the works. It just doesn't happen.
And if it did happen, it would be because you were on a site that you shouldn't be on in the first place and there are probably much greater risks than being tracked by an advertiser associated with such a site.
It doesn't have to be malware, just a very significant step towards Minority Report style targeted advertising. And it doesn't take much to move from there to evil although still not malware uses.
I don't doubt for a red second that an advertising network would not turn down an opportunity to "more effectively target their advertisements" should the opportunity present itself. And it has, it's just who justifies to themselves it isn't sleazy, it's service, that will jump on it.
I'm sure there is no connection between the recent illumination of the true Flash cookie capability that an outfit like DoubleClick could take advantage of, and that suddenly Flash gets a MAJOR nod by a browser-maker / YouTube / DoubleClick owner. None at all. cough cough.
I notice the content of your fight is gone, is that a capitulation finally?
You have nothing left to say that hasn't been said and refuted already?
i see no reason to continue with this particular 'religious' debate! like all religious debates you can't convince either side of anything and both leave feeling like they are correct. and so it is here; you have refuted nothing as far as i am concerned. i am just as convinced that i am correct as you are convinced you are correct.
this article is interesting. why? because it states that Apple and Microsoft are a part of MPEG-LA and receive money for the licensing of h.264? how very sweet of them to support h.264 and proclaim google as 'rubbish'. so noble it makes me want to vomit.
I think you would be surprised how vanishingly small those revenues are after being divided amongst the MPEG-LA members. Then, don't forget to subtract the amount that Apple pays to MPEG-LA for their use of these codecs. I think you will find that Apple's (or any groups' involvement with MPEG-LA does little more than lower the royalties they pay to MPEG-LA by some pittance.
Apple owns 4 patents in 1 country. MSFT owns like 116 patents in a number of countries but they said IE9 would support WebM when released. Also Google is trying out a new open image format called WebP. Now if only the video tag had a way to specify whether or not something streams or not would be a great thing to move HTML 5 forward. People should be able to control the video content they produce.
I think you would be surprised how vanishingly small those revenues are after being divided amongst the MPEG-LA members. Then, don't forget to subtract the amount that Apple pays to MPEG-LA for their use of these codecs. I think you will find that Apple's (or any groups' involvement with MPEG-LA does little more than lower the royalties they pay to MPEG-LA by some pittance.
yes i found where MS is supposedly the largest single patent holder in MPEG-LA but pays twice what it gets in royalties in fees.
so what it comes down to is ms and apple just being 'sensible' and avoiding webm or is it just more old school boys joining together to fight the common enemy? having read about the history of mpeg group and the way they do business i really do hope webm breaks their back. may be a pipe dream....
so what it comes down to is ms and apple just being 'sensible' and avoiding webm or is it just more old school boys joining together to fight the common enemy? having read about the history of mpeg group and the way they do business i really do hope webm breaks their back. may be a pipe dream....
I suspect that Apple, MS and others are simply choosing a well-known standard with good capabilities and well-understood business practices. I think it should be that MPEG-LA history which should worry any WebM supporter - the chances are very high that WebM is infringing some of MPEG-LA's patents.
To be honest, this whole thing strikes me as a likely back room deal between Google and Adobe (who will likely add WebM support to Flash). Google is probably safe right now as long as they don't drop H.264 from their YouTube. If they do, I think you are likely to see both DOJ and congressional investigations. Not everyone sees Google as doing no evil.
I suspect that Apple, MS and others are simply choosing a well-known standard with good capabilities and well-understood business practices. I think it should be that MPEG-LA history which should worry any WebM supporter - the chances are very high that WebM is infringing some of MPEG-LA's patents.
To be honest, this whole thing strikes me as a likely back room deal between Google and Adobe (who will likely add WebM support to Flash). Google is probably safe right now as long as they don't drop H.264 from their YouTube. If they do, I think you are likely to see both DOJ and congressional investigations. Not everyone sees Google as doing no evil.
Adobe has been very happy to work with Google to beat up on Apple regarding Flash. I wonder if they realize that Google will happily kill Flash next, once they can get away with it?
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Most people don't even know they exist or how much powerful they are when used "properly" from the trackers point of view. They are an advertisers wet dream compared to cookies just being a webmasters dream.
I think this is a little paranoid. Flash ads run inside of another Flash container that only provides one parent function call to the loaded swf. The ad running inside does not have the ability to set a Flash cookie because in order to do so it would have to reference a _parent.function. So unless the host page is in league with each and every advertiser automatically having their ad populated into the container, Flash cookies shouldn't be of any concern. Furthermore, you may need to study up on the sandbox that Flash cookies are restricted by.
Yes, it was nicely played and shows just how poorly though-out every one of screamingfist's arguments are. The amusing part is he still doesn't understand how completely he destroys his own arguments. He probably still won't and he'll just get more frustrated and do an even better job now.
(whispering to you) we get it, your desperate for attention and question your own worth. but never forget you are good enough, you're smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like you.
I think this is a little paranoid. Flash ads run inside of another Flash container that only provides one parent function call to the loaded swf. The ad running inside does not have the ability to set a Flash cookie because in order to do so it would have to reference a _parent.function. So unless the host page is in league with each and every advertiser automatically having their ad populated into the container, Flash cookies shouldn't be of any concern. Furthermore, you may need to study up on the sandbox that Flash cookies are restricted by.
There have already been flash apps in the wild which have the cookie behavior I wrote about and they did unscrupulous things with privacy related information and tracking. The ability to coordinate with a website displaying ads is merely a business negotiation with a trivial post-contract technical implementation.
It's not everywhere by any means. it's actually quite inconsequential at the moment as far as deployment. But the potential for explosive growth is quite real and it is the type of thing a leading ad supplier would find extremely attractive.
(whispering to you) we get it, your desperate for attention and question your own worth. but never forget you are good enough, you're smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like you.
Why thank you! You honor me with your slander!
I notice the content of your fight is gone, is that a capitulation finally?
You have nothing left to say that hasn't been said and refuted already?
There have already been flash apps in the wild which have the cookie behavior I wrote about and they did unscrupulous things with privacy related information and tracking. The ability to coordinate with a website displaying ads is merely a business negotiation with a trivial post-contract technical implementation.
Sure but I was responding exclusively to your assertion that Advertisers would be doing this. That is the part I disagree with. If a site that you visit is even in the legitimate advertising distribution network, automatically precludes them from engaging in that type of deceitful behavior.
Being someone who is involved in those types of business arrangements, I know that if a site and advertiser were to try to arrange some sort of collusion to exploit visitors, it would leak out immediately by way of the other parties involved such as brokers, artists, programmers, accountants, the works. It just doesn't happen.
And if it did happen, it would be because you were on a site that you shouldn't be on in the first place and there are probably much greater risks than being tracked by an advertiser associated with such a site.
Sure but I was responding exclusively to your assertion that Advertisers would be doing this. That is the part I disagree with. If a site that you visit is even in the legitimate advertising distribution network, automatically precludes them from engaging in that type of deceitful behavior.
Being someone who is involved in those types of business arrangements, I know that if a site and advertiser were to try to arrange some sort of collusion to exploit visitors, it would leak out immediately by way of the other parties involved such as brokers, artists, programmers, accountants, the works. It just doesn't happen.
And if it did happen, it would be because you were on a site that you shouldn't be on in the first place and there are probably much greater risks than being tracked by an advertiser associated with such a site.
It doesn't have to be malware, just a very significant step towards Minority Report style targeted advertising. And it doesn't take much to move from there to evil although still not malware uses.
I don't doubt for a red second that an advertising network would not turn down an opportunity to "more effectively target their advertisements" should the opportunity present itself. And it has, it's just who justifies to themselves it isn't sleazy, it's service, that will jump on it.
I'm sure there is no connection between the recent illumination of the true Flash cookie capability that an outfit like DoubleClick could take advantage of, and that suddenly Flash gets a MAJOR nod by a browser-maker / YouTube / DoubleClick owner. None at all. cough cough.
Why thank you! You honor me with your slander!
I notice the content of your fight is gone, is that a capitulation finally?
You have nothing left to say that hasn't been said and refuted already?
i see no reason to continue with this particular 'religious' debate! like all religious debates you can't convince either side of anything and both leave feeling like they are correct. and so it is here; you have refuted nothing as far as i am concerned. i am just as convinced that i am correct as you are convinced you are correct.
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/mor...deo-codec.html
this article is interesting. why? because it states that Apple and Microsoft are a part of MPEG-LA and receive money for the licensing of h.264? how very sweet of them to support h.264 and proclaim google as 'rubbish'. so noble it makes me want to vomit.
I think you would be surprised how vanishingly small those revenues are after being divided amongst the MPEG-LA members. Then, don't forget to subtract the amount that Apple pays to MPEG-LA for their use of these codecs. I think you will find that Apple's (or any groups' involvement with MPEG-LA does little more than lower the royalties they pay to MPEG-LA by some pittance.
I think you would be surprised how vanishingly small those revenues are after being divided amongst the MPEG-LA members. Then, don't forget to subtract the amount that Apple pays to MPEG-LA for their use of these codecs. I think you will find that Apple's (or any groups' involvement with MPEG-LA does little more than lower the royalties they pay to MPEG-LA by some pittance.
yes i found where MS is supposedly the largest single patent holder in MPEG-LA but pays twice what it gets in royalties in fees.
so what it comes down to is ms and apple just being 'sensible' and avoiding webm or is it just more old school boys joining together to fight the common enemy? having read about the history of mpeg group and the way they do business i really do hope webm breaks their back. may be a pipe dream....
so what it comes down to is ms and apple just being 'sensible' and avoiding webm or is it just more old school boys joining together to fight the common enemy? having read about the history of mpeg group and the way they do business i really do hope webm breaks their back. may be a pipe dream....
I suspect that Apple, MS and others are simply choosing a well-known standard with good capabilities and well-understood business practices. I think it should be that MPEG-LA history which should worry any WebM supporter - the chances are very high that WebM is infringing some of MPEG-LA's patents.
To be honest, this whole thing strikes me as a likely back room deal between Google and Adobe (who will likely add WebM support to Flash). Google is probably safe right now as long as they don't drop H.264 from their YouTube. If they do, I think you are likely to see both DOJ and congressional investigations. Not everyone sees Google as doing no evil.
I suspect that Apple, MS and others are simply choosing a well-known standard with good capabilities and well-understood business practices. I think it should be that MPEG-LA history which should worry any WebM supporter - the chances are very high that WebM is infringing some of MPEG-LA's patents.
To be honest, this whole thing strikes me as a likely back room deal between Google and Adobe (who will likely add WebM support to Flash). Google is probably safe right now as long as they don't drop H.264 from their YouTube. If they do, I think you are likely to see both DOJ and congressional investigations. Not everyone sees Google as doing no evil.
Adobe has been very happy to work with Google to beat up on Apple regarding Flash. I wonder if they realize that Google will happily kill Flash next, once they can get away with it?