Topic “flash”
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.
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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.
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