Flash cookies

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 08:07:00 EST 2010


On 12/01/2010 01:48, Dave Cragg wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2010, at 18:56, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
>    
>> On 11/01/2010 18:59, Michael Kann wrote:
>>      
>>> At this site you can see all the flash cookies that have been stored on your computer. These cookies aren't cleaned out when you "clear cookies." They get through even when you are "private browsing" with Firefox. I don't remember ever giving permission to any of the websites I see on my list.
>>>
>>> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> That is really quite alarming!
>>
>> Is there any way of seeing those Flash cookies when ont online?
>>      
> On OS X, they are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/
>
> I guess they are in an equivalent location of Windows. (No access right now.) I don't know about Linux.
>
>    

It gets even worse!

Yesterday I went to

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html

as instructed, and deleted a flash cookie called 'susan-boyle.com' (err, 
all a bit embarrassing).

Today, had a look in the folders in

~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/

and 'susan-boyle.com' was still there . . .

so, obviously, at least as far as Mac are concerned, the online Settings 
Manager
is worse than useless; it is positively misleading.




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