WSJ Warnings About Cookies Carry Cookies 45
itwbennett writes "The Wall Street Journal has 'a pretty useful section tracking privacy issues, privacy protection tools and the threats thereof from online marketers, from the point of view and on the technical level of a relatively savvy consumer,' says blogger Kevin Fogarty. The downside: He discovered that reading two stories from the WSJ's privacy section left behind deletion-resistant Flash cookies."
Re:Flash cookies (Score:3, Informative)
Flash cookies are easily deleted using Adobe's Settings Manager. [macromedia.com]
Yes, having to go to an Adobe web page to delete files from your local machine makes perfect sense.
Personally I just configured Apparmor so Flash can't write to anything but /tmp and its local config files, and no longer have to worry about whatever stupid crap Adobe do.
Re:Firefox's BetterPrivacy extension (Score:1, Informative)
In addition to Better Privacy, you can also change your flash plug-in settings to disallow LSO's using the flash applet at Macromedia [macromedia.com].