Comments on: Flash Cookies explained

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:58:48 +0000

Run Abine.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:18:24 +0000

Hi Barbara. I’ve been a Paypal user for years. I have never seen any LSOs on my two computers. I routinely screen for *.sol and also use the Adobe Flash Manager settings to insure that flash cookies do not get attached.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:40:08 +0000

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Barbara

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:39:16 +0000

I am an Independent Researcher for Law Firms. I am currently researching the Flash cookie tracking via PayPal/eBay and was wondering if you could help me. I know they are tracking with all the lastest research reports that have came out via Wall Street Journals article “What They Know” and other Berkley Studies but explaing how the 3rd parties such as but not limited to ShareThis, LivePerson, MarkMonitor,etc…..
Below is a sample of LSO cookie from PayPal therefore your input on what you see would be helpful.

http://www.paypal.com paypalLSO.sol 10/21/2009 11:36:53 AM 10/21/2009 11:37:01 AM 111 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.name [redacted]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\name [redacted]\www.paypal.com\paypalLSO.sol
http://www.paypal.com ppLsoTest.sol 10/21/2009 11:35:06 AM 10/21/2009 11:35:06 AM 48 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.name [redacted]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\name [redacted]\www.paypal.com\ppLsoTest.sol
http://www.paypalobjects.com paypalLSO.sol 8/10/2010 8:26:47 PM 8/10/2010 8:26:55 PM 111 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.name [redacted]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\name [redacted]\www.paypalobjects.com\paypalLSO.sol
http://www.paypalobjects.com ppLsoTest.sol 7/20/2010 5:43:51 AM 7/20/2010 5:43:51 AM 48 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.name [redacted]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\name [redacted]\www.paypalobjects.com\ppLsoTest.sol

By: George

George — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:24:06 +0000

You can delete all “flash cookies” in your computer (when you close your browser window) by installing a free browser plug-in called Taco Abine. I use it with my Linux system and sometimes it deletes as many as 80 flash cookies at a time. I LOVE IT!

By: A Close Look At Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta | Daily Article Zone

A Close Look At Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta | Daily Article Zone — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:26:21 +0000

[...] browsers up until now did not have an option to delete local Flash storage, commonly referred to as Flash cookies. Users either had to use Adobe?s inflexible online control panel, third party software or manual [...]

By: A Close Look At Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta

A Close Look At Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:24:22 +0000

[...] browsers up until now did not have an option to delete local Flash storage, commonly referred to as Flash cookies. Users either had to use Adobe’s inflexible online control panel, third party software or [...]

By: Microsoft Lifecam

Microsoft Lifecam — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:40:55 +0000

Well thanks to your post now i have more control of my Cookies, sometimes is good to delete all them for safety.

By: How do you clear cookies on your computer?

How do you clear cookies on your computer? — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:32:54 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:20:16 +0000

This is something new — finally a Firefox addon that gives you real control over tracking companies (including Flash cookies), without messing up cookies for other purposes or blocking ads entirely. The list of companies covered is amazing.

By: Evercookie, Extremely Persistent Cookies

Evercookie, Extremely Persistent Cookies — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:20:54 +0000

[...] they are affiliated with. Among the most common ones are standard HTML cookies, but also so called Flash cookies, also known as Local Shared Objects.Evercookie takes this a step further by dropping as many [...]

By: Dwight Stegall

Dwight Stegall — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:59:31 +0000

Flash Cookies are not evil if you know how to control them. I have uninstalled Opera and Safari for Microsoft Windows computers because they don’t allow you to do the following.

View my post here.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1210467d8af6a3cf&hl=en

By: mannyalbite

mannyalbite — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:24:32 +0000

This is all true but there is an easy way to remove this cookies use fire fox and go to this free addon it works the first time i installed it it remove more than 600 flash cookies and it remove then every time you closed your browser now is usually abot 1 to 7 depends were i browse and is free go here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/but you have to use fire fox I like fire fox but if i dont want to use fire fox just installed it and it will remove your flash cookies from any browser you used good luck a friend

By: Erik Stone

Erik Stone — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:08:32 +0000

Wow. The bastards haven’t said anything about those cookies and “The Media” doesn’t say much of anything about them either.

By: NORAD

NORAD — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:40:19 +0000

Adobe has also failed to mention that once you have made all of the modifications on their site (cleaning out LSO’s and checking the settings to prevent future cookies), are all instantly undone as soon as you run any standard cookie cleaning program on your computer. Their “protective” cookie gets washed away leaving you right back where you were before, eliminating all of your efforts to enhance privacy.
Design flaw? I doubt it.

By: KV

KV — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:26:40 +0000

I really think Adobe should be dumped from all computers. They are devious and Steve Jobs has the right attitude. No f-ing with my machine.

By: Daisy707

Daisy707 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:01:07 +0000

Overuse of “so called” (snort)

By: Flash Cookies Cleaner

Flash Cookies Cleaner — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:17:25 +0000

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By: Poopie Cookie

Poopie Cookie — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:47:30 +0000

I’ve noticed some flash cookies that survived many reformats,
most of which were on machines before I got them, but some of
which don’t even have the same hard drive. I wonder where they
are being stored, maybe refreshed from a database with MAC addresses?
POOPIE1980COOKIE