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Adobe's Flash Player 10.2 is out of beta and drops all PPC support.
According to the news from the Adobe Flash team and reported over at Electronista the new player ushers in a new level of hardware video decoding. There's also a list of new features that the update includes.
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Adobe has finally acknowledged there is an issue.
MacNN has the news subtitled as “Local Stored Objects were used to track users”. The report also points out that “Safari browsers running in Private Browsing Mode and using Flash 10.1 or higher already have the ability to clear LSOs, but most users do not implement Private Browsing as it is impractical for routine internet usage”.
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Prompted by privacy advocates, lawsuits, and websites that have abused the local storage capability of Adobe’s Flash, the so-called Flash Cookies, Adobe announced on Wednesday that it’s working with Browser makers to give users more visible control over their Flash Cookies.
Adobe’s Emmy Huang posted a note in the Flash Blog titled: ” On Improving Privacy: Managing Local Storage in Flash Player.” After explaining the reasoning and advantages of a minimal amount of local storage for Flash, the blog described how some websites have abused the local storage objects (LSOs) to restore HTTP cookies that the user thought had been deleted. “This use of local data storage has raised questions about privacy. So we’re continually working to make sure that users have better control over the local data stored by applications running in Flash Player.”
Class-action lawsuits against Clearsprint, Specific Media, and Quantcast have been brought for allegedly misusing Flash Cookies to track customers and violate their privacy. …more, click below
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Electronista is reporting Adobe making the claim on the beta of Flash 10.2. Adobe says the primary feature of v10.2 is Stage Video to GPU. Improvements in CPU usage are dependent on websites updating their custom players. Among the first parties to have updated is YouTube. Though YouTube offers HTML 5 too.
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