Next Flash Version Will Support Private Browsing

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @11:49AM from the en-oh-wye-bee dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The world rolled its eyes when the problem of Flash cookies came to light several months ago. Even if you're careful about cookies or even if you use your browser's private surfing feature, sites can still track you through cookies stored by Flash. However, soon enough the next version of Flash, 10.1, will support private browsing and will integrate with browsers to turn it on when the browser itself is in private browsing mode. Browsers still store data during a private browser session, but they will delete it all at the end of the session. The same will be true of Flash private browsing."

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Re:You said you prefer suspicious .exe files by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-16 12:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Try visiting (WARNING this will likely crash your browser if you have flash installed) this page then. If you have Flash installed, your browser will likely crash. Adobe have know about this issue for years, but marked the bug 'private' whilst bullshitting that there were no known expliots in their engine. You can read about it via the reddit page - and this is just one of many similar 'known but undisclosed' issues