I have been using a plug-in for Firefox called "BetterPrivacy" that I like. It will easily remove the Flash or LSO cookies.
Yep me too.. I am trying out Chrome since FF turns into such a memory hog, how does it handle flash cookies?
They (along with javascript) are also a way to unmask your IP addy on the Tor network, or anywhere else. Tor button plugin solves this problem however.
these are the so-called supercookies
I use windows explorer. Thanks for posting.
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Are these the cookies that show an ad for a web site that I have visited, while looking at another site? If so, it’s pretty creepy. Is there a way to defeat this if using IE? Thanks.
Alright, I have a totally irrelevant story for this thread.
Last week my mother and a couple of her sisters visited my very old grandmother. While there, they decided to help her by cleaning her house.
The woman saves every single piece of mail that she has ever been sent. One of my aunts was trying to sort it and she came across a flyer for a product to remove cookies from your computer.
My grandmother refused to let her throw it away. “What if somebody asks me to make computer cookies for their office party? What if somebody needs the recipe? There are a LOT of people who would love computer cookies!”
After fifteen minutes of trying to explain what computer cookies were, and my grandmother stubbornly refusing to grasp the concept, my aunt patiently allowed her to file the flyer in her recipe box.
This one’s for you......
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WOW ! My computer is 4 years old and I use it often. I regularly clean out the junk but never deleted these super cookies. I just performed the task and my computer speed picked up significantly.
Thanks for the post.
I see that warning about flash settings, approve/deny, every time I start a video. Using Opera now, same annoying thing as in Firefox.
I stopped using Firefox recently due to another video related (possibly Flash related) problem: every time I watched a video, the Windows clock went haywire, losing time by hours or even days. Finally I concluded that the Firefox “plug-incontainer” was implicated, and things got a little better when it was closed using Task Manager, but still the clock was crazy and the browser was slow; low on memory notices kept popping up.
This had been going on for many months. Switched to Opera. Videos got better, clock behaved itself a little better. Then one day I got lucky: a power failure. When the computer came back on and got itself dusted off and re-groomed, it was “January 1, 2001.” (Actual date, 2010!) I restarted. Never had another problem with the clock or any video.
Still, I am very leery of Flash, Adobe in general, and its mysterious cookie settings. Some sites (not youtube) will show the alert but the approve/deny buttons aren’t clickable. Usually the deny thing takes several clicks and must be repeated every time the volume function is touched. If I knew how I would prevent that approve/deny window from ever appearing. It is up to no good.
Conclusions: Adobe, Firefox, me no like. Way fewer popups and glitches with Opera. It is also much faster than FF and doesn’t have an evil companion like FF’s plug-incontainer.
Fossil, thanks for this thread. It will take time to absorb but I know I’m going to learn something useful!
How do you get rid of the super flash cookies on IE?
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Flash is on the way out, to be replaced by HTML5. The sooner the better!
I like it storing my volume settings. Sometimes stuff is just convenient.
“...to open a page on the Adobe site which would show them.”
How do you actually do this? I went to Adobe and could not find it. Also tried to find it on my hard drive and could not find it. Any help would be appreciated.
Do these store account information, INSTEAD of regular first-party cookies? Or are these an added bonus headache?
Or are these a ‘work around’ for having blocked all third-party cookies; and are strictly for ad targeting etc?
If I delete them, have I then lost my automatic account recognition/auto-sign-in recognition at shopping/banking sites?
Thanks for posting this.
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Unsurprisingly most of my cookies were from porn sites.