Clearing privacy settings does not clear Flash cookies
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
When you clear cookies in Firefox it does not clear Flash cookies. Sites are using this loophole to bypass users' privacy settings and track visitors after their privacy settings are cleared.
It would be great if Firefox would clear Flash cookies as well as HTTP cookies with the privacy settings.
I think this is a critical issue with the browser (and other browsers also).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 1 14:33:22 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox 2.0.0.13+
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux z369x 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
tags: | added: privacy |
Are you able to reproduce this with Firefox-3.0? I seem to be unable to reproduce in Firefox-3 in Hardy/Intrepid