[ale] ARRGH - yet another way they invade your privacy - DOM storage

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Thanks for the tip.

DOM storage is easy enough to disable, but how do I disable flash cookies
aka LSOs?

Sean

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On Thursday, November 01, 2012 04:57:26 pm Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I just have a minute to post this.  I discovered this while configuring
> Internet Explorer on a Win 7 machine.  It applies to Firefox too, on
> whatever platform.  Not sure about Safari and Opra and other browsers.
>  Apparently, DOM storage provides a much more flexible and versatile
> way for website operators to store much more persistent data on your
> machine without your knowledge and without all those onerous
> restrictions on what you can do with cookies.  I read just a bit about
> it and decided to turn it off.  Your mileage may very.  Yet another
> thing I have to tweak on every IE and FF install I own.
> 
> http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/106540-dom-storage-cookies-enable-
> disable.html
> 
> So, if you're keeping score, and you care about such things, you need
> to control / disable:
> 
> cookies
> flash cookies
> DOM storage
> 
> Warning, doing this may break websites in very strange ways.  If you
> incapacitate your computer, it's on your shoulders.
> 
> I recommend the following FF add-ons for those concerned about privacy
> and security
> 
> noscript
> betterprivacy
> collusion
> ghostery
> 
> OH, and remove JAVA from the machine altogether!
> 
> For what it's worth.
> 
> Or, you can think like the Borg - RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
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