Re: [icecat privacy feature] managing super-cookies

[Sean Artman]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Gary Driggs <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Nicolás Reynolds  wrote:
>> couldn't it be done by forbidding flash cookies altogether?
>
> I would suspect that Flash cookies are handled by Flash or gnash plugins & 
> the browser and/or another plugin wouldn't have any control over them.

Except we know there exists a non-free browser plugin that does this.
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but the plugin must search for and
manage the location where the supercookies are stored. It would be
ideal to petition the BetterPrivacy author to put the plugin under a
free software license.

These objects (*.sol files) are stored in ~/.macromedia, and nowhere
else, on my system. So maybe it wouldn't be so hard to create a plugin
to delete them.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/

Regards,
Sean