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What's Flash piece from clearspring.com?

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:12 pm
by rmrichesjr
What's with the piece of Flash content at http://www.lds.org in the upper left corner?

Using Firefox 3.0.14 with FlashBlock add-on 1.5.11.2, I see that there's a small Flash piece with a tool-tip that says the URL is

//bin.clearspring.com/at/v/1/button1.6.swf

One time, I clicked on the symbol to activate or play the Flash piece, but it did not appear to do anything.

It is a Flash Cookie

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:51 pm
by PhillipsCJ
That page is using the AddThis service (owned by Clearspring) to encourage people users to share content from that page. The file you referenced adds a Flash cookie that allows some kind of collection gathering.