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« on: April 27, 2011, 09:08:24 AM »

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/04/providing-transparency-and-controls-for.html

Chrome has updated its dev release (kind of like a nightly-built beta release that you can download and use if you wish) to include support for managing your flash cookies.

For those you are unfamiliar with such a concept, your HTTP cookies are tracked, cleared, and managed within the privacy controls of most browsers - but Adobe Flash lets web developers store and manipulate local data within the plugin itself. It's a complete disaster. For instance, a nasty web page might show no cookies being used for tracking data - while storing a 0px by 0px flash plugin instead.

Most browsers will be adopting this within the next year - or if you are a Chrome user, check it out now =)

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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2011, 10:52:43 AM »

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Think that's the same thing, right? Except you have to do it manually.
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