Adobe Rolls Out Privacy Controls In Flash Player 10.3 63
adeelarshad82 writes "Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3, which includes enhanced privacy controls for how your activity is tracked online. Users can now clear local storage — sometimes known as 'Flash cookies' — on versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. Flash cookies, or local shared objects, made headlines last year when the Federal Trade Commission released a report that called on browser makers to include a 'do not track' option in their products. The FTC also mentioned Adobe because it said the cookies gathered by Flash are collected regardless of the browser's settings."
Re:What about enhanced security fixes (Score:3, Insightful)
I first knew Flash was evil when there were no such controls in the first version ever released.
How much more acceptance would there be of this product if they had just built in some level
of end-user control from the beginning? Cookie clearing, Don't play till I say, No sound till I say,
Continuous loops controls, etc, etc.
Instead they thru all their weight at supporting punch-the-monkey advertisers and to hell with
the users.
Amazing! (Score:2, Insightful)
It's only taken until version 10 for them to add such advanced features such as deleting cookies...