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Offline toasty0

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You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« on: August 15, 2009, 09:08:22 am »
More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday.

Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not.

What’s even sneakier? read further...
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2009, 09:20:32 am »
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2009, 01:53:46 am »
Using the panels on the left, how do I disable the cookies for Flash?
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2009, 09:28:47 pm »
Like so, I assume (note the delete all sites button in the third image):
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2009, 09:44:13 pm »
I did that, but didn't know if it was deleting the cookies or not, or just deleting that they were allowed to change the storage stuff on the computer.
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"All hominins are hominids, but not all hominids are hominins."


"Is this a Christian perspective?

Now where in the Bible does it say if someone does something stupid you should shoot them in the face?"

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There is no "I" in team. There are two "I"s in Vin Diesel. screw you, team.

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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2009, 04:29:47 am »
"storage stuff" = cookies.
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2009, 07:33:59 am »
Quote from: Bonk on August 15, 2009, 10:40:10 am
Or noscript or:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html
(use the panel links at the left)


Not to be too picky about this, but I have to log into *their* web site to accomplish this? Why can't I do this from my local machine like I can with txt based cookies and IE, FF, or other browsers?
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2009, 08:25:11 am »
Quote from: toasty0 on August 18, 2009, 07:33:59 am
Not to be too picky about this, but I have to log into *their* web site to accomplish this? Why can't I do this from my local machine like I can with txt based cookies and IE, FF, or other browsers?

My thoughts exactly, the first thing I did when I discovered this was to try and download the swf object and associated javascript and run it locally. After digging for a while I could not be bothered as there would be maintenance involved. It should be a control panel applet like java. (though java ignores its control panel settings anyway).
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Re: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 04:05:02 pm »
You can always do it that way or use Advanced Windows Cleaner or CCCleaner that does look a little safer.How do yuo get into it?

Where do you find flash player on Win. XP?
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