Cookie Monster (not the Sesame Street variant)

[CougTek]

http://samy.pl/evercookie/

Apparently, only the private browsing from Safari prevents this p.o.s. from installing itself into your computer. I wonder what makes Safari's private browsing better than Firefox's or Google's private browsing. Something good coming from Apple is always a surprise to me.

 

[Mercutio]

It's meant to be a technology demonstration at the moment, but as I understand it the source is available, so we'll undoubtedly have more in the not too distant future.

Speaking of obnoxious, did everyone know there's such a thing as a Flash cookie? And that they're also a total pain to get rid of?

 

[Will Rickards]

Doesn't CCleaner remove those flash cookies?

 

[Mercutio]

Doesn't CCleaner remove those flash cookies?

I think so, but Windows isn't the only platform that has Flash.

 

[Gilbo]

I use BetterPrivacy on Firefox to keep from being bothered with Flash cookies.

I don't have an extension for deleting them on Chrome yet though. I think Chrome might have built-in management of Flash cookies, since it comes with Flash. May have read that somewhere sometime.


HTML 5 is opening up a whole new can of worms with its local storage implementations. The wonders of the modern age - eternal mucking about with computer minutaie just to live a sane & reasonably private life...

 

[mubs]

Am seriously looking at using some kind of sandbox program for going online. Sandboxie?