Speaking of YouTube.......

[Oddysey]

Having gone out and personally perused the small army of .sol files on my 'puter, I can safely say that none of them are in plain text. As ProxRocks will attest, almost any decent text editor can easily double-up as a hex editor when called upon to do so. I can see at least one good reason for various results when using the so-called Google High(t) Quality filter, currently under discussion in another thread. Mine sets the quality (at 10, if my hex-decimal converting ability isn't too rusty), the filter doesn't affect it.

Hmmmm.....

In the meantime, what are the rest of you finding when you deny a Flash LSO, before it ever gets stored on your machine? Do the files play anyway?

And lest we forget, nearly all non-BigBox (YouTube and Yahoo) Flash files come directly from Adobe (nee Macromedia)'s website, they set themselves up originally to be the only server farm capable of streaming with any quality (meaning, little or no time lag), and the rest of the content-producing world went along with that. "Hey, we don't have to host this piece of invasive junk, so our bandwidth bills won't skyrocket out of control. Cool!) What this means is that unless you never surf for Flash files beyond YouTube (and that takes some judicious filtering, I'm here to tell you!), then you're still getting recorded in a little black box, one that currently belongs to Adobe, but I'm betting that it's ripe for either selling to marketers, or being hacked to death and blasting the last bastion of privacy we thought we had.

Points to ponder, no? [think]



Oddysey