Flash cookies have always been a bad idea.

May 16, 2010 10:34 PM

For the past few weeks, I have not been able to access my flash cookies to delete them. Can anyone clue me in as to why?

Normally, I go to this site and delete the cookies that flash holds onto no matter what you change the settings to. However, for the past few weeks the interface that allows you to both see and delete the cookies fails to load.

I have tried updating flash, and accessing the page from a separate computer with a different operating system just to see if it is still there and have still not been able to get the interface to load.

Is anyone else having this problem? Do you know how to fix it?

posted by 517 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: I didn't know about this before. Nothing loads for me at the page you linked to, but I found this page that does load. Does that load for you? Is that what you were looking for?
posted by various at 11:30 PM on May 16, 2010 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: It appears that the only difference in the address is the www, but for whatever reason it loads. They must have changed something on their sever in the past few weeks. Thanks.
posted by 517 at 11:37 PM on May 16, 2010

As a related note: Do you use Firefox? If so, you might be interested in the BetterPrivacy add-on -- it helps manage/delete Flash cookies.
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 12:09 AM on May 17, 2010

FWIW both links work for me. Maybe someone at Adobe is a late night (for me, anyway) reader of the green?
posted by niles at 1:12 AM on May 17, 2010