Any Reason to Let Silverlight Profile Me?

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

According to Microsoft’s Silverlight 4 Privacy Statement,

Disabling Silverlight Unique Client Identification

A registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Silverlight can be created with the Value Name EnableClientInformation with a Value Type of REG_DWORD and given a value of 0×00000000. This sets the machine to never provide the unique identifier associated with the Unique Client Identification feature to any Web site regardless of the DRM setting.

Any downside to this?

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