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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

“Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls. Instead, it’s slowly but surely helped itself — and its advertising and business partners — to more and [...]

Everybody owes it to themselves to go to Macromedia’s website to find out what sites have stored persistent data on your computer so they can track your activities:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Lots of weird sites there, I removed them all since I don’t remember visiting most of them and I doubt I’ll miss them anyway, they’ll probably miss me [...]

Mozilla has launched a web page where you can check if your plugins are up to date and preferably the latest version. The reason of course is to make sure you are not running some outdated version that has security flaws.

My Firefox 3.5.5 lists these plugins

Shockwave Flash

Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
10.0.32.0

Xine Plugin

Xine Plugin version 1.0.2, (c) [...]