Flash and cookies .........

[DorsetBoy]

Hands up those that knew Flash Player stored persistent cookies for months/years at a time and sharfed that info with other sites?

We all use cookie cleaners/CCleaner etc. but they do not touch these cookies set by Flash ( and apparently Google,YouTube,EBay )

See here  http://www.vistax64.com/vista-news/200742-adobe-flash-silent-privacy-killer.html 

Flash Settings Manager http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html


and for FireFox users there is this add on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/

[gizmo71]

Hands up those that knew Flash Player stored persistent cookies for months/years at a time and sharfed that info with other sites?

I didn't know it until recently, but it didn't surprise me (Adobe, along with Apple, are utter control freaks).

I don't put Flash Player on anything I don't absolutely have to.

[Rik]

I didn't, I do now, it won't any more. Thanks Dorset.

[Niall]

I'm sure one of the security programs I use removes something to do with flash. I cant say I'm overly bothered about it though as adblock normally stops mr from seeing things I don't want to anyway.

That being said? I'll have a nose at that add on. Ta

[JB]

Hands up those that knew Flash Player stored persistent cookies for months/years at a time

and for FireFox users there is this add on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/

Yupp, been using this for quite some time now. It's amazing what it finds the first time you run it.

[Technical Ben]

"puts hand up"
Seen the "control panel" for flash ages ago. Set it to "deny webcam and microphone" (Although I had no webcam). Who knows how easy it would be to setup farmville to have a secret video chat running while you are playing? 

Then the next step is to deny cookies + saved data. Then the website/flash program will popup and ask "allow 1mb/10mb to save your settings?"
A few sites fail to use the popup, but as I have it denied by default, I can just right click the flash box, and set "allow for this site only".