[LINK] RFI: Intrusive Internet Mechanisms

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:55 AM 2/12/2010, Birch, Jim wrote:
>Is this too simple? (or trusting?)
>
>Right-click a flash object, select either local or global settings, set
>the local storage to zero for specific or all sites.  There's also
>options for accessing third party info, which is off by default for me.
>

Thanks for the advice of setting the storage request to 0. Done! I 
always thought that related to downloading the video itself. 
Evidently not because they are working fine.

When I chose global settings, I was taken to the Adobe site. Why 
would I need to set anything on a third party in order to manage 
software performance on my own machine? That seems really odd.

On Firefox I use a block add-in called Flashblock. I have to click on 
the mini-window to let the flash through. Saves a lot of unnecessary 
downloading. I just looked at the settings for this add-on and they 
include blocking Silverlight as well, which I don't even know what 
that is. I turned it on to block.

Jan



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