Comments on: Stop social networking sites from tracking you https://dfarq.homeip.net/tips-for-stopping-social-networking-sites-from-tracking-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tips-for-stopping-social-networking-sites-from-tracking-you David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tom Gatermann https://dfarq.homeip.net/tips-for-stopping-social-networking-sites-from-tracking-you/#comment-7523 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:02:32 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=4296#comment-7523 It seems that Google Chrome has the ability to delete Flash cookies built into the browser. When you select, Wrench > Tools > Clear Browsing Data (or Ctrl-Shift-Del), make sure you have “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” selected, and then when you click on clear browsing history it will delete whatever is in the Flash cookie directories. I just tested it out by creating a test entry in the Flash cookie folder and Chrome deleted the test directory. It also appears to reset the Flash settings file, settings.sol. It seems that anytime you use Chrome’s ability to delete the cooking and plug-in data, the settings.sol file reset to the time stamp when the browsing history was cleared.

If you manually delete the settings.sol file, it appears that the Flash settings are reset to Adobe’s defaults, when you visit the Macromedia Flash settings page for your computer. So, if you have the settings set to not allow any sites to store content on your system, the setting is defaulted back to allowing 100KB of data to be stored. If you use Chromes ability to delete the Flash cookies, the file is reset, but it retains the settings you had specified on the Flash settings page for your system, so I can’t say for sure what exactly Chrome is purging from the settings file.

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