[tor-bugs] #3597 [Tor Browser]: betterprivacy included in TBB breaks my flash applications

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#3597: betterprivacy included in TBB breaks my flash applications
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks  |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:           
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:           
 Keywords:               |         Parent:           
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:           
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 For some reason, the better privacy extension is included in the tor
 browser bundle.  Curious, as the tor browser bundle does not, in fact,
 support nor allow adobe flash to be run.  However, better privacy seeks
 out your local flash directory, outside of the tor browser bundle
 directory structure, and annihilates all flash cookies and such located
 within.  While I can appreciate your need to eradicate all anti-anonymity
 technology from the face of the earth, it breaks many flash applications
 that are reliant, nay co-dependent, on those cookies.  Such as, all of my
 schoolwork is completed through flash applications.  While suffering the
 slings and arrows of oppression during school is bad enough, having my
 privacy software wipe my cookies without asking is of grave consequence. 
 Yes, the flash applications we use here at this private school in the deep
 mines of moria store your state in flash cookies on your registered laptop
 as received from the school.

 better privacy should be configured to clean out flash cookies inside
 tbb.  As this is not needed until tbb supports flash, better privacy
 should be removed from the bundle.

 cheers.

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