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FTC Is In Talks With Adobe About the 'Flash Problem'

Posted by timothy on from the would-you-like-a-delicious-cookie dept.

jamie links to news that the FTC is talking with Adobe about persistent Flash cookies. "Flash isn't actually necessary to watch YouTube videos, but the rest of this article is interesting."

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  1. BetterPrivacy Plugin for Firefox will delete LSO by Hyperhaplo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firefox plugin BetterPrivacy - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/ - will delete LSOs

    It can be set up to automatically delete LSO on browser exit; on a timer (every x minutes/hours/days) or manually

    It allows you to set a whitelist (protection list).

    It doesn't 'solve' the problem; but in the mean time it at least breaks part of the cycle.

    Also: Ghostery - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609/ - helps to stop the problem in the fire place.

    Used with Ad Block Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/ - it makes surfing the web much better.

    The Wild West era ended when there was no one left to conflict with.. right?

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  2. Re:What if the local storage is made zero? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    I actually did this and it does not work. Many sites are broken (hypem.com to name one of them). An alternative that works fine for me, is rm -rf ~/.adobe ~/.macromedia ; ln -s /tmp ~/.adobe ; ln -s /tmp ~/.macromedia. Since /tmp is cleared at every reboot, I get "session" cookies but never persistent ones. Yay.