Research Question: Flash Cookies

cyntheticsun · 17. Jun 2011, 05:22 PM

Can web beacons help deliver flash cookies? I know that web beacons can help deliver regular browser cookies but am not familiar enough with flash cookies to figure out if the same applies to LSOs. Adobe's page on flash cookies just states that LSOs are "exactly like" browser cookies, but I hesitate to jump to conclusions.

Any insight into this would be really helpful. Thanks!

torres-no-tan-magnifico · 17. Jun 2011, 10:11 PM

Welcome to the forum cyntheticsun!

The following blurb is from the add-on Better Privacy over at mozilla:

...Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never...

I highly recommend the above-mentioned add-on if you have privacy concerns regarding LSOs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...betterprivacy/

Hope this helps.

17. Jun 2011, 05:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
cyntheticsun Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 1	Research Question: Flash Cookies Can web beacons help deliver flash cookies? I know that web beacons can help deliver regular browser cookies but am not familiar enough with flash cookies to figure out if the same applies to LSOs. Adobe's page on flash cookies just states that LSOs are "exactly like" browser cookies, but I hesitate to jump to conclusions. Any insight into this would be really helpful. Thanks!

17. Jun 2011, 10:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
torres-no-tan-magnifico Copy Editor Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 622	Welcome to the forum cyntheticsun! The following blurb is from the add-on Better Privacy over at mozilla: ...Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never... I highly recommend the above-mentioned add-on if you have privacy concerns regarding LSOs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...betterprivacy/ Hope this helps. __________________ Torres-no-tan-magnifico

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