Since a large number of applications or tools on the web could be tracking our activity when browsing the Internet, many people have been concerned about trying to disable or delete cookies that are generally stored in this environment. Adobe Flash Player is not immune to this situation, a tool that, despite having a practical utility, also stores cookies on our computer.
The need that many people have in trying to maintain their privacy is broad and important, even more so if we talk about Adobe Flash Player, a tool that by default helps us play videos from different Internet portals. In other words, if we are regular visitors to different types of portals where videos are hosted, some The information from these environments will be hosted on our equipment due to a configuration that is configured "by default" and that we, as users, could easily manipulate.
Steps to disable Adobe Flash Player cookies
We will focus only on trying to deactivate or manage, in a personalized way, the configuration that A has.double Flash Player on Windows 8.1; The steps could vary a little in versions prior to this operating system, although the basis of what we will explain below is maintained in much of the process:
- First of all, we start Windows 8.1 in the conventional way.
- If we have skipped to the Desktop, we must return to the Starting screen.
- There we only write the word Flash.
- From the results we choose Adobe Flash Player (or Flash Player).
Once we have executed the steps suggested above, we will find a window very similar to the one we placed later; right there we will have the possibility of know how Adobe Flash Player is acting on our computer with Windows 8.1. The first thing we have to do is change the activation of the box to the third option (Block all sites from storing information on this computer), which will prevent those sites where we have played videos (or a few other elements) from hosting information on our computer.
If we have browsed different Internet sites indiscriminately and we do not know what activity has been recorded on our computer by Adobe Flash Player, then we could choose to Choose the button that says "Delete All..."; With this, all the cookies that this application has saved will be permanently deleted, which will not be saved again because we change the configuration according to what we previously advised.
We can also admire an additional option that says “Local Storage Configuration per Site…”, which we must select to be able to add sites in a personalized way. In other words, if we eventually visit certain Internet sites where we play videos, then with this option we could place the URL address of said web pages, so that the changes we have made have no effect on them.
We could also choose an additional solution to prevent information that we may not want from continuing to be stored on our computer (cookies); for this you just have to click the following link, which will automatically direct you to the Macromedia website.
A window very similar to the one we have shown previously is the one you will admire, where it is recommended to deactivate the first box (the one that says "Allow Third Party Flash Content to Store Information on Your Computer"). There are certain tips on the web, which recommend taking the small slider bar control at the top all the way to the left side.
With this, no more data or cookies will be stored on the computer every time we visit certain websites where Adobe Flash Player is used to execute certain elements (such as videos or animations). All these tips could be very useful for anyone who wants have better privacy regarding your web browsing and specifically, on sites where this plugin operates.