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Adobe Rolls Out Privacy Controls In Flash Player 10.3

Posted by Soulskill on from the things-most-people-will-ignore dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3, which includes enhanced privacy controls for how your activity is tracked online. Users can now clear local storage — sometimes known as 'Flash cookies' — on versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. Flash cookies, or local shared objects, made headlines last year when the Federal Trade Commission released a report that called on browser makers to include a 'do not track' option in their products. The FTC also mentioned Adobe because it said the cookies gathered by Flash are collected regardless of the browser's settings."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. no autoload by fermion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All I want is a button that will set flash content to load only with approval. This is already done third party, but if Adobe did it one might think Flash was more than just a method to push near pornographic advertising onto innocent users. As it is, the infrastructure to approve cookies is horribly unreliable.

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    "She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
  3. Re:*sigh* on and on with this privacy BS by DaftDev · · Score: 3, Funny

    You do not, control, your privacy..

    William Shatner, is that you?

    I'm almost as paranoid about online privacy, but I will take these small victories when I can.

  4. 64-bit by cratermoon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Still no official support for 64-bit platforms. That Nov 2010 release of 'Square' is the only thing that works on my Firefox 4 64-bit build with Snow Leopard.