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Flash will protect privacy
ACCORDING TO RELEASE NOTES for the beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the application will break with tradition by actually honouring the privacy wishes of its users.
A lot of users are unaware that the Flash Player plugin keeps its own cookies, along with a list of web sites visited and any shared components. This means their browsing is not as private as they might imagine.
Currently Flash Player stores a lot about your web browsing habits including the websites visited, the space its cookies and other data takes up, and indeed, more or less your entire web browsing history. Worst still, it's not exactly easy to work out how to purge all this information.
In fact, if you want to wipe your Flash cookies and so on, you have to visit Adobe's website and do that there.
However, according to Adobe's beta release notes, "Flash Player 10.1 abides by the host browser's 'private browsing' mode."
The release notes add that in version 10.1 anyone using Flash Player will find the same private browsing mechanisms apply to both SWF and HTML content, meaning that any objects created while browsing in private mode will be removed once the user returns to public browsing mode. Also, any existing shared objects will not be accessible, until that is, private browsing is turned off.
Of course users have been able to delete any information held in their Adobe cache, though many might not have known this is the case. Those people, indeed those that have downloaded the 10.1 beta release, can rest assured that their privacy is now being respected.
Not that they ever knew it was a problem in the first place. µ
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@Josh Taylor
You actually have the gall to whine about the tech that you're using to whine about the tech.
Do you understand the meaning of hypocrisy
Remove yourself from the internet(and society whilst you're about it)
@Josh Taylor
Since you're the Luddite who wants to do away with technology (it's of Satan!) and return society to the brain-dead days of mindless worship of a non-existent deity to the exclusion of all else, why don't you take your own advice.
Add dressing in sack cloth and living in a cave while you're at it.
It's reckoned by 2012 Adobe will lose its saturating presence on the web.
But we need only read its On Line Privacy Policy (most people don't) to see how intrusive and sinister this information trawling group really is.
Subscribers sign up to an amazing loss of privacy rights without informing knowing it.
Adobe are on a power kick , they are controlling everyone. I can't read my Cannon camera instructions because i refuse to download this spy ware. Sometimes they will freeze your page up so that you can't escape without downloading their junk. They behave like crooks, but why do so many websites allow them in?
Over the last 10 years I have not even allowed cookies on my computer. On the rare time I have to use it, I enable and then delete them. I consider cookies to be spyware, I wouldn't let anyone snoop in my house and my computer is no different.I have disabled the cookie funtion in the settings manager, now who else is spying on me without me knowing?
I have never heard about flash cookies,it must have been the best kept secret in computing.
WHAT SCUMBAGS at ADOBE. I have already removed Java because there is so little use for it anymore.
Great, now it only has to honor the "don't auto-play video"-setting, and stop replacing the browser context-menus with useless crap, and work with bookmarklets, and work with addons like mousegestures and super drag&drop, and respect the zoom/font-size settings, and on, and on, and on... untill every stupid F thing is fixed.
Or we can just tell adobe to put it back up their arses and move on.
For Firefox users there is an extension called Betterprivacy that deletes Super cookies. Great tool, I got chills when I first installed it, I had hundreds of lso cookies from all over the web from using the flash player
FlashBlock always. Ate up too much resources for my computer.
Why don't you all trash your computers, go out and enjoy real life, nature, the bible, and Jesus?
All computers are spyware. Mac, Linux, and Windows are spying on you and they're Satan's own software. The Bible is your spiritual OS and you can register it if you allow Jesus into your heart.
and manual purge of adobe/macromedia folders content will do for me. adobe can't be trusted anyway.
Flashblock is your friend, for firefox.
You won't see all those crappy ads, and hidden malware swfs won't run at all. If you ever do want to run a particular SWF you can click on it, or you can just whitelist specific sites as well.
I love the bit where they say, "Note: The Settings Manager that you see above is not an image; it is the actual Settings Manager". It reminds me of Magritte's painting of the pipe where is says, underneath, translated, "This is not a pipe".
What about removing session cookies on exit? That would be much better.
Flash is spyware. Why did all the OLD methods of spyware go away and suddenly Spybot search and destroy stopped finding spyware. Because it's IN FLASH. Which is why A. It's starting to suck and not work half the time and B. Everyone wants it gone.