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Code Known as Flash Cookies Raises Privacy Concerns

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Re: Code Known as Flash Cookies Raises Privacy Concerns

#12

Now that browsers ship with "anonymous mode" I imagine the fact that you're not anonymous at all on any page that has flash is completely confusing to the average internet user.

You might be interested to know that the Tor project is helping Google and Mozilla with this very problem:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/google-chrome-incognito-mod...

They have a lot of expertise in this area

Re: Code Known as Flash Cookies Raises Privacy Concerns

#13
On *nix systems including Mac you could do what I do: a cron job that runs every week to delete everything in the ~/.macromedia/Flash directory. Windows users can achieve the same thing with an event schedule, the directory is probably in something like %USER%\App Data\.
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