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For the past few months I have become more concerned with online privacy. That is because I became more aware of how much data is collected on internet users and how easily that data is obtained. I have adopted many new tools for increasing my digital privacy. Things like:

  • Making use of a VPN service.
  • Paying more attention to which software I use.
  • Trying to educate myself more on digital privacy.

I recently wanted to use Adobe Flash player in browser for running some flash based applications, but I remembered hearing about many vulnerabilities associated with the platform. After doing some research and trying to understand those vulnerabilities a little more I began to ask myself how much of a significant privacy issue is flash. I have browsed for FireFox addons and installed a flash block extension to try that out.

Therefore my question is how concerned do I need to be with running flash from a web privacy viewpoint? What can I do to improve my web privacy around flash player? Are there other solutions to prevent flash sharing data? Is this something I need to be concerned about at all in the first place?

Thank you for any help.

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    I banned Flash from the entire building over 2 years ago. [Silverlight & Quicktime for Windows too] I rarely see sites that still use it.
    – Tetsujin
    Aug 6, 2018 at 17:08
  • @Tetsujin Thanks for your reply. I'm mainly interested in running flash based web games, I don't think I'd use it in any other case because like you mentioned, It isn't used often anymore. Aug 6, 2018 at 17:11
  • Then idk, sorry - that type of gaming is not something I've ever generally allowed in the building. One single proprietary system, no means of adequately securing it == avoid like the plague.
    – Tetsujin
    Aug 6, 2018 at 17:19
  • @Tetsujin That's beginning to seem like the only solution from a privacy outlook right now. Aug 6, 2018 at 17:23
  • If you must use it, run in a sandbox, i.e. VM, or use Flash from a dedicated gaming machine (or Linux Live USB device), with no personally identifiable info. It will still pick up your location from ISP and any info browser leaks. See browserleaks.com Aug 6, 2018 at 17:26

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