Comments on: How Websites Can Track You With Cookies Even If You’ve Disabled Them

By: KFC

KFC — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:48:37 +0000

I’ve disabled them via adobe.com, and then set the permissions on the directory on my linux machine such that it cannot be written to in case adobe gets any cute ideas about opting me back in.

By: JO

JO — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:20:59 +0000

CCleaner DO IT OK.

By: johnnie

johnnie — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:21:36 +0000

Can I disable “flash cookies” using this tool [macromedia.com]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:06:37 +0000

I’ve found 2 tools for those who don’t use Firefox :
Flash Cookie Cleaner (without installation)
Flushflash cookies flash (without installation)

By: leland

leland — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:08:44 +0000

Have you tried Ghostery for Firefox? It will not only show you what sites are collecting information about you but allow you to block this behavior customized to what you want.

Also no person wanting to protect themselves on the net should be without NoScript which will block this behavior as long as you don’t enable scripts for a site (which in many cases would not do as you need those to see what you want).

That would be where BetterPrivacy would come in providing another layer for cleanup. Nice find Pieter.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:16:31 +0000

This isn’t limited to flash, and could be done with any technology that has isolated storage. With silverlight becoming more and more popular, the same could be done there.

By: M1ke

M1ke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:23:45 +0000

Flash also has a problem with sessions when sending data to a PHP script – in some instances it may use these cookies to keep track of your session so that you can save data etc. from inside a flash container. An example of this is favouriting YouTube videos through an embedded player. So blocking them entirely or deleting everything isn’t advised; even if you don’t want to save progress in a game you may be cutting yourself off from useful features like this.