Chrome, IE To Allow Users To Delete Flash Cookies 110
Trailrunner7 writes "The upcoming release of Adobe Flash Player 10.3 will give users of most of the major browsers the ability to delete Flash cookies in much the same way that they're able to erase normal Web cookies, thanks to a better integration with privacy settings in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. The addition of the ability for users to delete the cookies set by plug-ins and browser add-ons gives them better control of the security and privacy of the content on their machines and is designed to address a serious issue that's been plaguing Flash for some time. Security and privacy experts have warned about the implications of so-called Flash cookies, which are set by Flash and difficult for users to find and delete."
Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
And for Firefox users there is Better Privacy [mozilla.org].
From the Better Privacy site:
Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical.
This addon was made to make users aware of those hidden, never expiring objects and to offer an easy way to get rid of them - since browsers are unable to do that for you.
emphasis mine
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, Firefox 4 supports this as well, out of the box.
Re:Firefox (Score:2, Informative)
Yep. Has existed for several years now, including for older versions of Firefox like FF3.5
(and maybe 3?)
The only thing is it had to do it on disc due to lack of an Adobe API.
However, Better Privacy works even with older versions of Flash, like 10.2 - unlike this new method which requires Adobe's cooperation.
Works in Firefox 4 as well (Score:5, Informative)
This also works in Firefox 4 last I checked; I'm not sure why the article just talks about Chrome and IE.
Evercookie, say hello to volatile storage. (Score:2, Informative)
Evercookie is unstoppable, irrevocable, undeleteable, and it represents a new trend.
A RAMDisk is an emulated disk that uses system memory and is erased completely during shutdown.
Symbolic links and hard links are pointers that let you direct files and directories to other locations, such as RAMdisks.
Reboot. What evercookie?
Takes about 10 mins to set up properly. Using Windows? CCleaner can help you with any missed temp files. Schedule it to run at startup.
Re:Evercookie, say hello to volatile storage. (Score:4, Informative)
Hard links do not work across paritions/drives symlinks are what you want.
Flash 10.3 beta helps too (Score:4, Informative)
Cheers,
Ian
ability to delete Flash cookies (Score:4, Informative)
Under Linux delete the ~/.macromedia directory ...
Re:ability to delete Flash cookies (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Works in Firefox 4 as well (Score:5, Informative)
Boris is 100% correct. Mozilla shipped this feature in Firefox 4 and if you have the newest Flash version, it "just works."
This story's headline is misleading. It should be "IE, Firefox, and Chrome..." because IE shipped it first, Firefox shipped it second, and Chrome just now got around to shipping it.