[LINK] RFI: Intrusive Internet Mechanisms

[Kim Holburn]

You might like to think about silverlight cookies as well while you're there and you're on a windows box:
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/59530.aspx

In Macos flash cookies are here:
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/

And something else is squirrelled away here:
~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash\ Player/

Silverlight stores something here:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Silverlight/
Perhaps cookies are somewhere else as well

On 2010/Dec/02, at 9:31 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> 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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