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https://fpdownload.macromedia.... - There ya go, buddy. And here's a tissue to clean your glasses with, too.

Well, not *never* deleted.

Go here & delete:
http://www.macromedia.com/supp...

The tutorial requires Flash. Funny, innit?

Well, not *never* deleted.

Go here & delete:
http://www.macromedia.com/supp...

That simply sounds like you are using something else than Windows 8. The Windows updates for the Flash plugin are only delivered in Windows 8.

Win7, it's always said the ActiveX plug in wasn't installed no matter the Win version.

I still use the old Opera that has short-cuts, I type in Flash as a URL and go to
http://download.macromedia.com... Link will download install_flash_player.exe

None of this oh damn I installed Mcafee by mistake :}

Blocking third-party cookies, which I've done for years, isn't enough. You also need something like Abine's DoNotTrackMe, which blocks most of the known tracking sites. And you may have to go to the Flash preferences page and turn off some things there.

The BlockSite add-on for Firefox might seem useful, but it's spyware - it reports all your browsing activity to a site in the Czech Republic ("api.wips.com") If you don't "opt in", it won't let you visit major sites like Hotmail. That's acceptable to Mozilla's "Developer Relations Lead". Mozilla isn't as tough on privacy as their PR people say they are.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html still seems to work too.

Hat tip to chrome and IE for making this easier, but for those who don't already know, there is a way to delete flash cookies. Just click the "delete all sites" button after arriving at this webpage: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

You did know Flash has P2P capability and you are opted in by default

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager09.html

set it to "disable P2P uplink for all sites" before they help themselves to your bandwidth

and mind the dataminer on the page, who knows what that 15kb obfuscated library does.

For 32-bit users, the latest versions are:

ver 10 (10.3.180.42): wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer10-3/flashplayer10-3_b1_lin_030811.tar.gz

ver 11 (11.0.0.60): wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/incubator/flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz

Both of these seem to be OK, judging from the version number, but ver 11 is better - doesn't crash when loading a new youtube video.

To see the version:
strings libflashplayer.so | grep FlashPlayer_

For 32-bit users, the latest versions are:

ver 10 (10.3.180.42): wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer10-3/flashplayer10-3_b1_lin_030811.tar.gz

ver 11 (11.0.0.60): wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/incubator/flashplayer_inc_debug_lin_022711.tar.gz

Both of these seem to be OK, judging from the version number, but ver 11 is better - doesn't crash when loading a new youtube video.

To see the version:
strings libflashplayer.so | grep FlashPlayer_

McAllister apparently thinks that Wallaby is a new development (it's several months old, in fact)

Only as a demo at Adobe events. Adobe only made the preview available for download this week.

(Adobe said that it was for non-interactive content several months ago).

Really? Strange that Adobe would spend so much time documenting interactivity in Wallaby content. (Warning: PDF.)

Wallaby's not trying to port Flash content, otherwise it'd accept SWF files as input.

I presume the main reasons it accepts FLA files only are because A.) they're easier to convert, and B.) SWF is a deployment format, and Adobe is not interested in creating a tool that would allow end users to "steal" content from other people's SWF files; you need access to the original FLA project.

What McAllister should have focused on was that Adobe will create tooling that extends the relevance of their existing products as interest shifts from one technology to another.

I believe if you read the article you'll find that was my conclusion.

Can't you just go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

And delete stuff that way?

In addition to Better Privacy, you can also change your flash plug-in settings to disallow LSO's using the flash applet at Macromedia.

Flash cookies are easily deleted using Adobe's Settings Manager.

Yes, having to go to an Adobe web page to delete files from your local machine makes perfect sense.

Personally I just configured Apparmor so Flash can't write to anything but /tmp and its local config files, and no longer have to worry about whatever stupid crap Adobe do.

Flash cookies are easily deleted using Adobe's Settings Manager.

this thing can turn on my webcam and upload the vids just because i clicked on a link?

let me ask, how do i NEVER get this add-on?

Got Flash? Yes it can, and guess what: there are settings for that, per site and global.

Maybe the good boys at Mozilla thought of that too.

this thing can turn on my webcam and upload the vids just because i clicked on a link?

let me ask, how do i NEVER get this add-on?

Got Flash? Yes it can, and guess what: there are settings for that, per site and global.

Maybe the good boys at Mozilla thought of that too.

There is no updater in Flash Player for Mac.

Adobe's global flash settings page specifically says that there is no updater for Flash Player for Mac.

Note: Automatic notification is available on most Microsoft Windows platforms. You also need to have permission to install software on your computer; that is, you need to log in as an administrator or as a user who has permission to install software..

Users on all supported platforms can manually check whether their installed Flash Player is the latest, most secure version.

It's not particularly obvious, but there is a fairly easy way to decline them ahead of time:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

That's the first result for a Google search on 'flash prefs', but that is pretty much an incantation, not something most people will think of right away. Getting rid of existing flash cookies requires visiting another page there:

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

It's not particularly obvious, but there is a fairly easy way to decline them ahead of time:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

That's the first result for a Google search on 'flash prefs', but that is pretty much an incantation, not something most people will think of right away. Getting rid of existing flash cookies requires visiting another page there:

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

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

go delete your flash cookies thanks to Adobe's handy deletion tool. First result on Google for "Delete Flash Cookies"

To install Flash for Firefox Portable, follow the directions here: http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/09/05/installing-flash-in-portable-firefox-with-no-installer/

In case you don't want to go to the link, it's really simple:

Get this file: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi

Put it in your "plugins" folder in your FF Portable installation.

Restart FF and you should be good to go.

I would check that “Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer” option in the Macromedia control panel is enabled, as some games seem to require that...

Better: use Adobe's settings manager to check to see if your flash cookies reveal where you've been.

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

That page opens the Flash Settings Manager and lets you peruse what information is available to Flash through cookies, offline storage, etc. The locations where Flash stores things differ from operating system to operating system, so don't rely on looking in Temp or /var/tmp/ or, as one terribly misinformed person below wrote, in your Firefox cache. Flash is totally separate from your browser (hence that it's a plugin) and stores files where it wants to, not where your browser usually does!

On OSX, for instance, Flash cookies are stored in randomly named subdirectories somewhere under ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia

A good idea: write yourself a bash script (or whatever the Windows equivalent is) like the following (change to suit your operating system's Flash directories:

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia

Run it often.

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

Noscript users must temporarily allow adobe.com as well. (But at least you don't need to allow real cookies for either domain.)

You can set the flash plugin to not store any data, but it sure gets annoying on some sites when the volume controls don't work. You can also set it to ask, but it's even more annoying to try and hit the "cancel" button 15 times with choppy video behind it.

The old 10.0.45 version of it appears to still be downloadable from here (not sure if there was another version after that).

However, given the rate at which security issues crop up in Flash, you are probably better off using the nspluginwrapper thunking stuff or other method for your distro that makes the 32 bit plugin work on 64 bit Linux, rather than running an out of date Flash plugin.

I'm not sure that's true...

When I go to this link...

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

...and check out my Website Storage Settings, I see a whole bunch of sites that I've never even visited.

(Or at least I don't want to admit too...)

You can set the flash settings here for any browser.

I put my flash settings to paranoid mode using that thingy, and since then, even though I have reset the settings to the default values, re-installed flash, removed all flash-related files from my system, and basically did all I could to ensure a clean start, flash still works only partially in this browser (firefox on linux) because all the flash cookies are rejected. I would advise everyone to stay away from the adobe-provided settings and instead install the firefox betterprivacy plugin, setting it to delete everything on browser exit (included the default cookie that keeps a log of all visited flash sites!).

You can set the flash settings here for any browser.

Yep; therefore you should download Acrobat Reader from ftp.adobe.com. Flash player for Firefox is here, though you need to save the file and extract files manually because Firefox no longer supports installing extensions via install.js. Replace with -mac/-linux as appropriate.

Funny? No, what's funny is that you went there and clearly didn't look very well.

It's right here, and it's under the fairly obvious title of "Website Privacy Settings".

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

"There should be an option to default allow/deny/question whether Shared Objects should be allowed."

There is: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

You can also whitelist and blacklist sites in that same Flash Global Settings Manager :)

Telling Flash it can't save local shared objects and disabling third party storage through the settings manage is a poor solution for several reasons:

1) Some sites require that local shared objects are enabled.
2) Some sites require that third parties be able to save local shared objects (Pandora, for example).
3) Even with those settings disabled, Flash still stores a null local shared object for each site that requests one, so even though no data are stored within the local share object, Flash is still recording a metadata browsing history of sorts. Or at least it is on OS X; I don't know what it does on Windows or Linux.

Locking the folders solves all of those problems. You can allow first and third party shared objects so that sites work correctly, but block the objects from persisting.

If anyone is curious, you can access the settings manager here..

It probably doesn't make any difference for most people, but if you delete the folders mentioned above, then visit the settings manager to lock in any other preferences, and finally go back and lock any folders and files beneath the paths mentioned above, those settings will be permanently saved -- at least until you unlock them and move them to the Trash.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html to control your Flash player settings.

Sorry for comment hijacking.

Adobe provides Flash Settings Manager to allay your privacy concerns. Of course, it is not very user-friendly for average Joe but average Joe probably can't be bothered about privacy anyway. And there is "Delete All" button as well, for paranoids.

or you can use Flash Settings Manager

However, the Flash model is different. To control Flash, one uses the Flash Setting Page. It would be relatively trivial for adobe to add auto play and site based controls to this page. Most people would not bother, but it would provide a level of choice, and weaken the argument that 90% of the content is stuff users have no interest in, and like spam, serves mainly to clog the network.

You don't need to download software to clear Flash cookies. Just go to this Web site provided by MacroMedia. Don't think that the Settings Manager is an image; it is an actual view of the Flash cookies on your computer. It appears to me that these cookies are shared between my two browsers.

Another useful thing is to visit Macromedia Flash Settings page to disable Flash storage/audio/video settings.

Why not just go to Adobe's site and block them at the source?

That link doesn't personally appeal to me because it (and Flash cookies in general) is a default-allow policy. I greatly perfer a default-deny policy. I also dislike the idea that I would need Adobe's blessing in order to fully control the behavior of my own computer and the applications on it. That BetterPrivacy addon for Firefox is a better way to deal with this. So is making ~/.adobe/ a symlink to /dev/null, or deleting everything in it and then making it read-only (and root-owned if the plugin tries to modify the permissions). None of those depend on the goodwill of Adobe or its decision to have a default-allow policy for a proprietary and manifestly insecure plugin.

Why not just go to Adobe's site and block them at the source?

You can't delete them from within the browser without addons or plugins

This is also false.

Go to this URL:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Enjoy.

The cross domain stuff isn't that terrible, it defaults to deny, and you can actually turn off flash cookies:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

I'm not sure that qualifies as a special tool or not. Another panel there lets you remove existing cookies.

For the lazy... http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Here's a link for the latest version of the player without the download manager attached. http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_update3_flash10.zip

I have never had Flash notify me that it needs an update. Ever. The only time I've seen the notification was on a single computer at the office.

A few days ago I was given this link http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager05.html - I think it was somewhere on Slashdot, either in the article, or in the comments. Sure enough, I went there, and Flash was set to never notify me of updates.

Worth checking out.

AMCtv.com is using the latest version of Flash to bring you the best quality video. Please update your current flash player by clicking here

Does not update a x64 based linux OS nor can I find one on download sites.

Suggestions?

You should be able to find an x86_64 Linux version of the current flash. I'm running Debian Testing/Unstable and the current version of flashplugin-nonfree gets the 64bit Flash 10 plugin.

If you just want a tarball of it, you can download it from Adobe Labs.

This is exactly what I do. If I'm doing any questionable browsing I pop open Opera. Most browsers have a delete/clear/private browsing option but I don't trust them to be completely thorough.

I've recently discovered though that Flash stories an equivalent to cookies across browsers that don't get cleared out or filtered. There's always something.

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

There is more than one URL: Adobe's Flash settings widget. You have settings_manager03.html. Adobe has been recommending settings_manager07.html.

The Flash updating tool is very buggy. It may update only your installation of Opera, instead of Opera and Firefox. If you have multiple installations of Opera, it will update only one of them.

In Windows, it is necessary to use the Replace.exe command to replace all instances of flashplayer.xpt, NPSWF32.dll, and NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe. The latest version of the files is located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash after updating one installation of one browser.

I just started using bp last week and here is something important. The version on the Firefox addon site is not the latest. I got 1.41 at

http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm

because it added a bit of functionality. Specifically in the way it treats DOM storage.

DOM storage is not flash cookies (LSOs), it is a separate way sites can store data on your computer I had not heard about. The old version could only disable DS, but now BP can now treat DS like LSOs so it stays on but the data gets deleted on FF shutdown. Some sites like cnn video need DS turned on.

Also I set it to delete the default LSO. That one stores a list of every flash site you visit. Even if you turn Flash local storage completely off using:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

you will see a list of visited sites on the last tab on that control. Deleting the default cookie gets rid of that list.