[UPHPU] shame on you Adobe

[Wade Preston Shearer]

On 10 Aug 2009, at 22:07, Sean Thayne wrote:

> I don't understand why you would want it purged? There isn't cookies  
> stored there, there isn't any sensitive information there either.  
> The only thing that is stored there is a list of the flash sites you  
> have been too, but it is only accessible to you, not to the flash  
> apps you use.

Call me paranoid, but I don't want a history of the sites I visit  
being logged anywhere. Second, for sites that I don't want my behavior  
tracked on, Flash should honor my choice to reset my browser however  
frequently I choose. According to that article, websites can use  
unique ID stored in the flash shared object to connect me to their  
database and then reinstate their cookies. It appears that you can  
disable this through the flash settings control panel on Adobe's site,  
but that is far to complex and obscure for the average user.
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