Comments on: Flash Cookies explained

By: Four Options To Deal With Flash Cookies

Four Options To Deal With Flash Cookies — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:06:43 +0000

[...] explained Flash Cookies in detail back in 2007 when a larger group of Internet users became aware of them. More than two [...]

By: my ip is recorded, i'm not anonymous

my ip is recorded, i'm not anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:01:38 +0000

It is not necessary to use cookies in order to save temporary information required for whatever is needed.
The point is that they don’t want you to have the CONTROL of the amount of personal information you deliver and leave viewable for ANYONE every time you are surfing the net.
Just think why didn’t they implemented that Adobe Control Panel and you only have access through the web (and its unknown still today). And this panel doesn’t remove all the information just part of it.

By: Tor Browser – jednoduchá anonymita na internete « Užívateľov blog

Tor Browser – jednoduchá anonymita na internete « Užívateľov blog — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:15:50 +0000

[...] cookies umožňujú vytvoriť súbor veľký až 100Kb. Ale našťastie sa dajú vypnút, tu je návod v angličtine. Počas víkendu to skúsim napísať do slovenčiny. [...]

By: Moose

Moose — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:40:10 +0000

Haha paranoid! All your clicks and visits on the web are being monitored anyways, ip’s, location, time stored. It’s a public space. I bet you scared victorians found some porn links in your .sol folder; what’s wrong with that; your not the only one watching xtube.

By: Radford Rigsby

Radford Rigsby — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:30:51 +0000

Excellent summary re flash cookies. Thanks

Rad

By: They’re everywhere! « Awed Manor

They’re everywhere! « Awed Manor — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:36:00 +0000

[...] a new kind of cookie out there – flash cookies, that are potentially bad. These are different than the regular cookies that people are [...]

By: Russ, wait here! I’ll get help! » Blog Archive » Flash Cookies

Russ, wait here! I’ll get help! » Blog Archive » Flash Cookies — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:22:16 +0000

[...] http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/04/flash-cookies-explained/ [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:05:32 +0000

Thats it! no more inter webs for me! lol

By: Think you've cleared your cookies? Think again - TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:49:13 +0000

[...] a few links for anyone who want to look into it more Flash Cookies explained Local Shared Object – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Study: Adobe Flash Cookies Pose Vexing [...]

By: Sneaky Bastards « Eat It Or Wear It

Sneaky Bastards « Eat It Or Wear It — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:13:36 +0000

[...] Privacy Questions Again Web Sites Using Flash Instead of Browser Cookies to Track Your Activity Flash Cookies explained Local Shared Object BCLT – Berkeley Center for Law & [...]

By: latecomer

latecomer — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:44:36 +0000

in some cases flash cookies are urgently required.

For example, one of my favorite sites uses flash extensively in delivering content. I have to accept their cookies or their site won’t store my preferences and my experience there would be severely adversely limited.

Not all flash cookies are the devil.

But, its great to now have some control over them. Thanks for the referral to that site.

By: sethgrover.com » Link Roundup for Aug 10, 2009

sethgrover.com » Link Roundup for Aug 10, 2009 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:19:00 +0000

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By: Hisself

Hisself — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:58:47 +0000

There’s a reason for Flashblock, and it’s fuckwittery like this (not the article, which is excellent, Adobe’s behaviour).

By: DX

DX — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:06:58 +0000

I found 546 flash cookies on my site, some recent activity on my machine has prompted to find changes on my machine. Apparently there is some capacity for malicious behavior with these cookies, phishing and such. My mac is not safe any longer. waugh!
Thanks for the info.

By: stirner

stirner — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:53:47 +0000

On linux:

rm -R /home/user/.macromedia
ln -s /dev/null /home/user/.macromedia

Max

By: flashblock

flashblock — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:38:31 +0000

@#$^&@!! @$#$%^ adobe

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:38:52 +0000

If Macromedia/Adobe’s intentions were honorable, then they would have made it possible for the user to manage these cookies.

Guess this is one of the reasons God created FlashBlocker?

By: 探客

探客 — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:00:38 +0000

flash cookies URL？

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:51:19 +0000

Still, these Flash Cookies are quite usefull for me as a game developer. So there not all that evil. Otherwise u wont actualy be able to save your game (unles u want to use a SQL server).

By: maxatwo

maxatwo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:37:14 +0000

Hello Peter,

you are completely right with everything you say, except:
“But then you ALSO need to consider the increased hassle you are making for yourself by having to re-enter data for sites like Google, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and other respectable sites that use flash cookie tracking too. You can’t have it both ways.”

If you are using a sophisticated Cookie Manager like MAXA Cookie Manager, you can specify which cookies you want to keep (whitelist) and which ones you want to immediately delete or block (blacklist). As it support flash cookies togerther with all conventional variants of cookies, you can have it both ways indeed, using MAXA Cookie Manager:
http://www.maxa-tools.com/cookie.php?lang=en