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Preventing/blocking tracking through Flash cookies
As a follow on from my previous post about the prevention of tracking scripts and web bugs, I thought I'd do a quick how-to for blocking "Flash cookies".
Flash cookies can store up to 100k of data on your machine, which is around 25 times the size of a standard browser cookie. They are a serious threat to privacy because as well as being able to hold large amounts of data, they exist outside of the browser's normal content management system making it very difficult to easily manage which sites can set data and what is contained in each cookie. Often sites will use Flash cookies to regenerate normal browser cookies across sessions.
New Myuzyk site goes live
After many weeks of loving attention, the new Myuzyk.net site is live. Myuzyk is a netlabel supplying a great range of (mostly) free music in MP3 and FLAC formats and a few special releases in physical formats with lush custom artwork and prints.
Shhh!
Here's a smudged preview shot from something I've been working on lately. All will be revealed in a week or two when the site goes live. A prize goes to anyone who can guess what it is:
Contact form issues
It seems the contact form hasn't been working properly, so if you've sent a message and not received a reply from me over the last week or two that's the reason.
All fixed now though.
[Howto] Use Privoxy to prevent online tracking and analytics
These days it's hard to find a website that isn't using a analytics and/or tracking software to profile visitors. The use of analytics, cookies, web-bugs, and even advertising banners to track users actions (often across multiple sites) is commonplace and can be used to trace a user quite effectively. However, it is quite easy to set up Privoxy to prevent analytics scripts, cookies and web-bugs from tracking you.
About me
Hi, I'm Paul. I like to build websites and web applications that actually do stuff. I'm based in Kent and I occasionally blog about things that interest me.
If you would like to contact me about building a web presence, head over to the contact page to get in touch. I don't have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Google etc so you can't contact me in any of those places.