what kind of sites are you going to that this is possible??? maybe you shouldn't go there
Posted on 05/18/2016 11:23:56 AM PDT by CedarDave
The past few days a new nuisance with Adobe Flash has appeared on my computer. It's an icon that asks to install an ad cookie on my computer. If you click deny, you don't get to view the video. Normally I wouldn't care, but some news clips I want to view. For example, there was a nice interview with Ivanka Trump on CBS News this morning and a FR thread about the disdain shown by the reporter in the questioning:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3431680/posts
The question asks: "Allow CBS NEWS to store information on your computer?" Your choices are "Allow" or "Deny."
Would appreciate some help on how to view the clip without getting Adobe Adware on my machine, and how to get rid of what is already on there.
Adblock Plus and NoScript have no effect.
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Now, there’s a first world dilemma!!
Eat the cookie. Your weekly virus-scanning
regimen (you do scan your hard drive, right?)
will let you delete all the cookies you have.
If not, download Spy-Bot and use it.
It seems Adobe flash is prompting you. You did NOT get rid of adobe flash. You will get a blank section if flash is really gone.
There is an uninstaller for flash from Adobe IIRC. I had to go looking for it.
Does Spy-bot take care of Adobe cookies? I thought they are stored separately from other ones. Adblock Plus, NoScript and Firefox privacy settings take care of most problems and I allow some cookies for sites I visit frequently. However, these seem different.
Be glad they’re asking!
I use Flash but have settings adjusted so that permission is always needed; otherwise Flash would activate everywhere an ad appeared, and slow down the computer. (It doesn’t even quit when I close the browser.)
The info they’re asking to store is a cookie, no? Set your browser to delete cookies when it closes. Or just do it manually when you are done viewing the video.
You might want to try Ghostery too, see if that helps.
I could get rid of Adobe Flash if I wanted to, but then some content (like the above interview) wouldn’t run.
Many many sites now use HTML5 for video/animation, so you might be pleasantly surprised. If you remove flash completely, most sites ought to default over to HTML5, and you will still get the video clip.
Another nice add-on I have on Firefox is called Better Privacy. Since Flash can store their own cookies called LSO’s which are not deleted when you delete cookies, this add-on can clean those up.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/
I have not tried this myself and it is a fews years old, but this may be what you want. Shows how to stop the prompts.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7302/delete-flash-cookies-to-improve-your-privacy-online/
If you’re getting that popup you still have Flash, might as well hit Allow.
What browser are you using?
I don't want to steal the thread but I stopped all cookies and it really slowed down things. When I allow cookies I can get 2000 cookies and a trojan in a couple hours. Are there any anti-viurs programs that stop thing at the web server so I can run my slow Centurylink a bit faster? I am contemplating going back to dial up as slow as they are.
If you don’t allow it, you won’t get the video from that source, simple as that. If you really want to watch the video, but don’t want the cookie, you can accept the cookie, watch the video, then go to your browser’s cookie settings and delete the cookie afterwards.
You can also delete all those Flash Player “cookies” by using the Flash Player Settings Manager. To see this manager go to Control Panel and click on Flash Player. You can delete individually or all at once.
This is also what I use; though the only Flash-based web site I ever use nowadays is the NOAA weather radar, so the flash cookie cleaner probably doesn't get much exercise anymore.
what kind of sites are you going to that this is possible??? maybe you shouldn't go there
Ancestry.com and here, Fox news, drudge, that is where I pick up cookies. I have been hacked and my records have been taken at least 5 times.
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