Any alternative to Macromedia Flash player?

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Something that can't set persistent cookies, doesn't require a web
site to change the privacy settings, can't access the microphone and
camera, and contains no unique identifiers?

FF browser, Windows ME

I'd like to be able to look at some of the political satire animations
turning up on the web, but don't want to compromise my privacy or
safety to do it.

Thanks
 
default said:
Something that can't set persistent cookies, doesn't require a web
site to change the privacy settings, can't access the microphone and
camera, and contains no unique identifiers?

FF browser, Windows ME

I'd like to be able to look at some of the political satire animations
turning up on the web, but don't want to compromise my privacy or
safety to do it.

Thanks
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the only thing I know of is the flashblocker:
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/. But this can disable and enable flash
at your will, and thats about all.
 
Something that can't set persistent cookies, doesn't require a web
site to change the privacy settings, can't access the microphone and
camera, and contains no unique identifiers?

FF browser, Windows ME

I'd like to be able to look at some of the political satire animations
turning up on the web, but don't want to compromise my privacy or
safety to do it.

Thanks
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You can change the Flash privacy settings and access to webcam etc.
Right click the flash animation and select settings. I don't allow
flash in Firefox, when I really want to use Flash (rarely) I then
switch to IE.
 
Enos said:
I don't allow
flash in Firefox, when I really want to use Flash (rarely) I then
switch to IE.
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Why? I would have thought using FF for Flash would be more secure than
IE. What's the reason?
 
default wrote
Something that can't set persistent cookies, doesn't require a web
site to change the privacy settings, can't access the microphone and
camera, and contains no unique identifiers?

FF browser, Windows ME

I'd like to be able to look at some of the political satire animations
turning up on the web, but don't want to compromise my privacy or
safety to do it.
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Use an offline flash player -
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/offline-flash.html
 
Hello, default !
You said:
Something that can't set persistent cookies, doesn't require a web
site to change the privacy settings, can't access the microphone and
camera, and contains no unique identifiers?

FF browser, Windows ME

I'd like to be able to look at some of the political satire animations
turning up on the web, but don't want to compromise my privacy or
safety to do it.

Thanks
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Sadly, Greg Yardley, who wrote the wonderful Firefox extension
'objection', which dealt admirably with all that insidious flash
cr*p, has announced that he isn't going to update it for version
1.5*. Pity.
Yours, Raincoater
 
Once said:
Why? I would have thought using FF for Flash would be more secure than
IE. What's the reason?
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I'm using SeaMonkey but guess this apply to Frifox to.

It's not so much about security, but annoyance why I have Flash disabled
most of the time. There is to much flash crap (e.g. ads) used on sites
that I don't care to see. The abuse of flash is also today what in the
90's was abuse of animated gif's for no other reason than to show off
(hey, look what I did)!

BTW, there is addons that makes it possible to easy disable and enable
when it suites you. That's what I do. You don't need to use IE when you
wish to look at flash on sites.
 
Arne said:
Once said:
Enos Nivek on 27/04/2006 wrote:
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It's not so much about security, but annoyance why I have Flash disabled
most of the time. [snipped]
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Please, how do you disable Macromedia Flash? I would like to disable it
too.

Thanks.
 
Arne said:
There is to much flash crap (e.g. ads) used on sites
that I don't care to see. The abuse of flash is also today what in the
90's was abuse of animated gif's for no other reason than to show off
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Ah, now that I can understand and agree with.
 
Once said:
Arne said:
Once said:
Enos Nivek on 27/04/2006 wrote:
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[snipped]

It's not so much about security, but annoyance why I have Flash disabled
most of the time. [snipped]
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Please, how do you disable Macromedia Flash? I would like to disable it
too.
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I'm using the Preference Toolbar with several useful features, the flash
block is just one of them, and you can customize it to suite your needs.
Read about the other features and get the extension from
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

A single flashblock extension is this from http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

With the flashblock extension you will see a placeholder everywhere
where a flash animation is placed. As I understand it, clicking on the
placeholder will open the animation.

With the prefbar extension you enable flash and reload the page if you
like to see the animations on the page.
 
Arne said:
Once said:
Enos Nivek on 27/04/2006 wrote:
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[snipped]

It's not so much about security, but annoyance why I have Flash disabled
most of the time. [snipped]
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Please, how do you disable Macromedia Flash? I would like to disable it
too.

Thanks.
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There's an extension called flashblock for mozilla browsers - I have
my wife's computer set up with it; works well - blocks by default and
you have to enable the flash to play.

For my own computer - I don't trust macromedia one iota. The idea
that some smarmy marketeer can set hidden flash cookies or a piece of
software that enables (by default) sites to access the camera or
microphone - tells me they aren't interested in my privacy.

The other option is to uninstall flash - and that requires another
executable from macromedia - although you can probably just rip out
the dll files and suffer a crash from time to time.
 
Newby said:
Once said:
Enos Nivek on 27/04/2006 wrote:
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[snipped]

It's not so much about security, but annoyance why I have Flash disabled
most of the time.
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[snipped]

Please, how do you disable Macromedia Flash? I would like to disable it
too.
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1) Media Player Classic can play Flashcrap.

(http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/)

If I ever find any *.swf of any worth, I might try it myself.

2) Disabling Macromedia Flash plugins in Mozilla-based browsers:

a) Type about:plugins
b) Note the name of the Flash DLL.
c) In the app's (browser) plugin directory,
eg., C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins,
delete/hide/rename the DLL.

3) Disabling Macromedia Flash plugins in Mozilla-based browsers:

a) Type opera:plugins
b) Note the name of the Flash DLL.
c) In Opera's plugin directory,
eg., C:\Program Files\Opera\program\plugins,
delete/hide/rename the DLL.

4) If you insist on using Macromedia software, at the very least undo
all of the adware/spyware settings that Macromedia has set up for you,
all out of the goodness of their hearts.

(http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/security/)

And since Macromedia software needs fixed/patched quite often, you
might need to do this every time that you update your player. I
wouldn't know.

Ron :)
 
default wrote

I'll be checking it out, thanks.

Offline means I'd have to look at the page info and find the location
of the flash then download it?
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Prolly. Look at the sites mentioned or play around. I pick the
animations I want to see and have set up the preferences to secure
Flash.
 
Arne said:
I'm using the Preference Toolbar with several useful features, the flash
block is just one of them, and you can customize it to suite your needs.
Read about the other features and get the extension from
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

A single flashblock extension is this from http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
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Let me get this straight - to disable certain plugins and extensions, you
must install other plugins and extensions?

I never understood why an application or browser could not have a simple
preference screen that could disable plugins and extensions, hopefully even
prevent them from loading into memory, by simply clicking a checkbox.
 
Howard Schwartz wrote
Let me get this straight - to disable certain plugins and extensions, you
must install other plugins and extensions?

I never understood why an application or browser could not have a simple
preference screen that could disable plugins and extensions, hopefully even
prevent them from loading into memory, by simply clicking a checkbox.
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Catch 22 ....
You'd have to download such a 'screen'.
 
Why? I would have thought using FF for Flash would be more secure than
IE. What's the reason?
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Because FF is my secure browser. I set it up to be as secure as
possible so that means no flash. I rarely use IE but it is still set
up fairly secure.
 
Howard Schwartz wrote



Catch 22 ....
You'd have to download such a 'screen'.
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Actually, the screen exists for ActiveX controls. It's called Manage
Add-ons in the IE tools menu.
 
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