Updated on 18 Apr 2009
By Anthony Buckner
23.97 KB Safe To Install
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Specifications
License:
Freeware
Updated:
Downloads:
6503
Platform:
Win 2003/XP/Vista/7
Publisher:
Unknown
Website:
Unknown
User Reviews:
Other versions:
1.25, 1.24
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Publisher's Descriptions
Better Privacy serves to protect against undeletable longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical. Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never! BetterPrivacy can stop them, e.g. by allowing to silently remove those objects on every browser exit. So this extension becomes sort of "install and forget add-on". Usually automatic deletion is safe (no negative impact on your browsing), especially if the deletion timer is activated. The timer can delay automatic deletion for new or modified Flash-cookies which might be in use. It also allows to delete those objects immediately if desired. With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against 'DOM Storage' longterm tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object Privacy test: http://netticat.ath.cx/extensions.html Navigate to BetterPrivacy (right column) Note: Note, there is a common misunderstanding. You cannot use the settings.sol cookie to store GLOBAL security settings. Those settings are site specific and would be stored in the appropiate site cookie. So you would have to define a security setting for every single domain. If you really choose to do so, you must allow all flash cookies to be stored and consequently admit tracking too (a site LSO exists). At least you would have to allow the storage of those cookies where you have defined your security settings.
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System Requirements
  • Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6a1pre
    • What's New
    ~Fixed: Betterprivacy neither asked nor deleted LSO's on exit if Java Quickstarter (part of JAVA) is present
    +Added: Betterprivacy checks for valid Flash data folder path and warns if it is invalid
    +Added: If delete all LSO's is pressed, the LSO manager asks if protected objects should be excluded.


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