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Lusito / forget-me-not

Make the browser forget website data, except for the data you want to keep.
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Flash cookie removal #35

Closed Joel889 closed 6 years ago

Joel889 commented 6 years ago

Perhaps for future consideration, being able to remove flash cookies would complete this addon (even if it's only on demand or after restarting the browser).

Thank you

Lusito commented 6 years ago

I'll have to decline this one. Two reasons for this:

  1. It's impossible to do this with web-extensions, since the web-extension API does not offer the possibility to clear flash cookies.
  2. Flash is dead and it will be removed from all browsers in the near future, so the need to remove flash cookies will be gone as well (one reason why it's not in the web-extensions API and never will be)
Joel889 commented 6 years ago

This makes sense, but now I wonder if the following addon is working at all: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clear-flash-cookies/

Lusito commented 6 years ago

That extension is using the clear plugin data API, which is already supported by forget me not.. if that clears flash cookies, then this issue is just a wording problem I guess.

Lusito commented 6 years ago

Keep in mind tho, that there is no way to apply the rules on plugin data, as the API does not support this.

Joel889 commented 6 years ago

I know you said that you probably won't implement this, but if anybody is interested the following extension does clear flash cookies on startup: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clear-flash-cookies/

Tested on FF 58.02, fresh install. When turning the plugin off and restarting the browser, flash cookies remained. When I turned on the plugin and restarted Firefox, flash cookies were deleted. I tried this several times with either setting.

Lusito commented 6 years ago

I think you missed my point.. what that extension does is already available in forget me not. Have you tried checking the "plugin data" option to see if the flash cookies get removed? (I don't have flash installed anymore, so I can't test)

Joel889 commented 6 years ago

Yes you are correct. I re-tested it just with Forget Me Not and it does also clear flash cookies.