Thanks to Slashdot...
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According to Jupiter Research, 58% of web surfers deleted cookies from their system in 2004. This has sent a loud message to marketers in regard to consumer's preference as to tracking their online activities. The marketers have responded with PIE. Persistent Identification Element (PIE) is a technology that uses Macromedia's Flash MX to track you even without using cookies. Macromedia has created a page to instruct users on how to disable this."
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What is happening is that instead of using Cookies to track you - some companies are instead tracking you via Flash elements on web pages. If you go
here
to the flash website you can use the control panel there to configure how Flash is handled in your browser and prevent things like this from happening.
To require that all websites ask your permission before using your camera or microphone, or to prevent any website from accessing your camera or microphone, you use the
Global Privacy Settings Panel.
To specify the amount of disk space that websites you haven't yet visited can use to store information on your computer, or to prevent websites you haven't yet visited from storing information on your computer, you use the
Global Storage Settings Panel.
To specify if certain websites are allowed to access information on other websites, you use the
Global Security Settings Panel.
To specify if and how often Flash Player should check for updated versions, you use the
Global Notifications Settings Panel.
To view or change the privacy settings for websites you have already visited, you use the
Website Privacy Settings Panel.
To view or change the storage settings for websites you have already visited, or to delete information that any or all websites have already stored on your computer, you use the
Website Storage Settings Panel.
EDIT: Should have said - more detailed instructions are available at the bottom of each section on the site to explain what it does.