Flash! Argh!
Aug. 26th, 2009 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxOK, listen up.
So, you clear out your cookies regularly, and you delete your browser history. That's it, then, right? Your tracks are covered...
Nope.
Website operators love user-data - it helps them deliver 'more compelling content' to you, the user, and the nature of data being what it is, standard browser cookies were proving a little limiting.
Plus there was that option for the user to clear all their cookies out, and thus the website lost all its history on you.
So there are these things called Flash Cookies, which are available to websites which use Flash, if you have Flash installed. And since a large part of the web is just b0rked without Flash, most of us do.
You can't delete Flash Cookies from the browser (as far as I know). But Adobe do have a control panel on the web for you to have a look at them. Go here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.
That graphic, top right, is NOT an image, it's the Flash Settings Control Panel for YOUR BROWSER.
The far right tab will show you the websites that you've visited that have stored some kind of information on your machine, anticipating the happy day that you return to their corner of the interwebz.
So, you clear out your cookies regularly, and you delete your browser history. That's it, then, right? Your tracks are covered...
Nope.
Website operators love user-data - it helps them deliver 'more compelling content' to you, the user, and the nature of data being what it is, standard browser cookies were proving a little limiting.
Plus there was that option for the user to clear all their cookies out, and thus the website lost all its history on you.
So there are these things called Flash Cookies, which are available to websites which use Flash, if you have Flash installed. And since a large part of the web is just b0rked without Flash, most of us do.
You can't delete Flash Cookies from the browser (as far as I know). But Adobe do have a control panel on the web for you to have a look at them. Go here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.
That graphic, top right, is NOT an image, it's the Flash Settings Control Panel for YOUR BROWSER.
The far right tab will show you the websites that you've visited that have stored some kind of information on your machine, anticipating the happy day that you return to their corner of the interwebz.
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Date: 2009-08-26 09:08 am (UTC)And really nice that it can just be used, instead of having to downlaod and install something first :o)