Why do Apple devices not run Flash?

[chris.mapey]

Quite glad I avoid Flash, going by reading an article on the BBC News site...

[i]The study found that more than half of sites surveyed used flash cookies to store information about the user, with some using it to "respawn or re-instantiate cookies deleted by the user".

"Flash cookies often share the same values as browser cookies, and are even used on government websites to assign unique values to users," the paper read.

Users often purge cookies from their browser to save space or cover up browsing history.

However, while most browsers have simple commands to delete text cookies, Flash cookies are neither listed nor controlled by the browser.
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also...

[i]"I think it's much more likely that the vast majority of users are simply oblivious to the bizarre way in which Adobe allows them to configure the software."

While traditional browser cookies can be deleted from a users computer, either through an automatic purge or manual removal, the security settings for Flash are hosted on Adobe's own website, rather than your own computer.

Mr Cluley said that these settings are changed by logging onto Adobe's website, right-clicking on a Flash object and selecting "Global Settings" and then adjusting the security settings via the "Global Privacy Settings" panel.[/i]

Full article here

[otolith]

That's interesting - Flash retains a visited sites history which is independent of the browser history and up until the version released a couple of months ago, it does not respect the "private browsing" feature of browsers.

So if you want to know whether your kids have been secretly browsing grot in private mode, all you have to do is click here.