[UPHPU] shame on you Adobe

[Wade Preston Shearer]

On 12 Aug 2009, at 12:26, cole at colejoplin.com wrote:

> You are correct about the shared object. But if someone is browsing  
> away from the page, the most they will get is the next url, and  
> perhaps some tricky js to Flash hand offs. It's not that much more  
> useful than the standard tracking of what Omniture or Google  
> Analytics would do. There's nothing beyond that domain.

I've never implied that it could be used to track your browsing habits  
across the internet—only one a particular site. They don't even need  
to store a URL. All they need is a unique ID to know that it's you.


> But, I can see what you mean, because at least you can nuke a cookie  
> from the browser, and clearing the Flash memory is not obvious to  
> the user. It *could* work like a session keeper, or keeping the next  
> browser url. I agree that Adobe should honor the browser cache  
> clearing.

That's my only complaint. I don't have any beef with the plug-in  
having a memory (cache) or it supporting (it's own version of)  
cookies. The user needs to know that it's there though and have an  
easy way to flush it (something that does not exist today). Most  
people have at least heard of cookies. As was discussed on the uFlash  
mailing list, there would not be easy way for browsers and plug-ins to  
talk to each other and simultaneously purge together when the user  
executes the command so it's not something that would be fixed soon  
(even if it were a priority for Adobe). That said, I think that the  
better solution (although I don't know if it would be possible) would  
have been for Flash to set and read normal browser cookies instead of  
Macromedia creating it's own version.

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