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by chubot 5434 days ago
I do that too, but I don't think it's enough.

I use FlashBlock, which I think is enough, because they're apparently using flash cookies to recreate regular HTTP cookies (or something like that).

Flash is a huge POS in so many ways.

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There's a whole bunch of places to stash unique identifiers. And you only need to overlook one of them, because they will repopulate all of them the next time you hit a KM-using site.

HTTP cookies, flash cookies, ETags, HTML5 databases ... it just goes on and on.

Flashblock isn't enough. The Firefox implementation lets the flash load, then hides it immediately.