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Already have an account? Sign in to comment. Linked pull requests. You signed in with another tab or window. As we noted on this blog yesterday , the White House used an in-house Flash based tool for its latest weekly video address. Earlier messages from the President are still delivered using YouTube, although the White House tech team has enabled the "delayed cookie" option for all of these.
Analysis Those in the privacy community will likely pounce on this as evidence of Google's hypocrisy, while Google will likely respond by carefully parsing the definition of the phrase "non-session cookie" to not include Flash-cookie objects. Google might even even argue that its Flash-based cookies do not contain unique tracking information something this blogger is unable to verify, since the Adobe Flash Manager only allows you to delete, but not view the contents of a Flash cookie.
One thing is clear. YouTube has advertised a new delayed cookie feature, and stated that it "does not send a cookie until the visitor plays the video. Yet a user visiting a page that includes one of these "delayed cookie" videos still ends up with a long term, non-session Flash cookie hidden away in the depths of their browser. Technical definitions of "cookie" versus "Flash cookie" aside, YouTube's "delayed cookie" feature simply fails to deliver on the company's promises.
Regarding the spat over cookies, the Youtube and the Whitehouse web site is the tip of the iceberg. There is a much bigger debate about Google's role in federal information policy looming. The Google blog post , if read carefully, is very revealing.
It is all about justifying Google's growing dominance in government information dissemination. This is a business plan. It is tied directly to YouTube's advertising model and revenue forecasts. There is nothing about actual federal information policy. Complying with federal laws e. The question is whether Google will decide for itself whether it will comply with these laws or the people's representatives.
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Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. YouTube's new 'nocookie' feature continues to serve cookies A recently implemented "delayed cookie" privacy feature at YouTube begs the question: When is a cookie not a cookie? Chris Soghoian. March 3, a. Writing on the Google corporate policy blog Tuesday, Steve Grove of YouTube stated: To ensure that we openly communicate about privacy issues on all federal websites that use our technology, we created an embeddable video player that does not send a cookie until the visitor plays the video.
YouTube's online technical documentation also reveals a bit more about the feature: Enabling delayed cookies means that the YouTube video player will not set any non-session cookies on the computer of a visitor viewing the page on which the YouTube video is embedded.
The YouTube video player may set non-session cookies on the visitor's computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has thoroughly described the Flash cookie privacy problem: Flash cookies provide the only method by which a flash movie can store information on a user's computer A screenshot of an empty Flash cookie jar Close all of your browser tabs, and restart your browser. By looking through the source code for that blog page , we can verify that the YouTube flash file is indeed being served from youtube-nocookie.
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