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This makes me think that Google had ulterior motives when bundling flash with Chrome. Having the latest, most-secure version of flash is a win for Google, its u
by emehrkay 15y ago
This makes me think that Google had ulterior motives when bundling flash with Chrome. Having the latest, most-secure version of flash is a win for Google, its users, and the web in general, but having flash installed allows for usage of flash cookies which can read your info across browser sessions -- info that they'd probably want.
To Chrome's credit, I believe it is the only browser that allows users to delete flash cookies.
* removes tin foil hat
- joejohnson 15y agoKnowing that a large percent of the user base won't use it/know about it, maybe they include the ability to delete flash cookies so that later they can say, "you can opt out at any time!"
- eyeareque 15y agoYou can delete flash cookies with other browsers too, but you need to visit a adobe site in order to do so: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
- othermaciej 15y agoYou can delete Flash cookies and in fact all data that a site could use to track you in Safari, including plugin-related data, cache, etc. Just go to the Privacy pref pane and click on Details under Cookies and other Web Site Data. For example, for kongregate.com, I see that I have Cache, Cookies, Plug-ins and Local Storage holding potential tracking data, and I can delete it all with one click.
- Nick_C 15y agoI've said this before, but for others who missed it, here's one of my crontab entries: # Remove Flash cookies and everything to do with Flash, # including left-over Flash files in /tmp 15 13 * * Wed /usr/bin/rm -rf /home/nick/.macromedia/Flash_Player/* 16 13 * * Wed /usr/bin/rm -rf /tmp/Flash*
- emehrkay 15y agoThank you