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Story: Getting Rid of Nasty Flash Cookies on LinuxTotal Replies: 7
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tracyanne

Mar 25, 2009
9:52 AM EDT 		by setting the permissions of the folder they are written to, to list only. the flash video still work fine.
ComputerBob

Mar 25, 2009
11:30 PM EDT 		On my Debian Squeeze PC, I found what looks to be flash cookies in 2 different sub-folders within ~/.macromedia.

I took a chance and deleted all of the contents of both sub-folders. Then I locked both of them (chmod 000).

So far, so good -- Youtube videos still worked afterward.
ColonelPanik

Mar 26, 2009
11:43 AM EDT 		Point us to tutorial on this, Please!
tuxchick

Mar 26, 2009
11:45 AM EDT 		Colonel, I am shamelessly poaching all of these good ideas and rolling them into an article which will run tomorrow on LinuxPlanet.
ColonelPanik

Mar 26, 2009
3:27 PM EDT 		o/ /o/ o /o Yea TC.

Thanks even though I know you had this idea a long time age.
ComputerBob

Mar 27, 2009
8:33 PM EDT 		TC, did you change your mind about writing your article?
Sander_Marechal

Mar 27, 2009
8:43 PM EDT 		ComputerBob: Carla's article is already in the queue.
ComputerBob

Mar 27, 2009
10:11 PM EDT 		Now I see it - at the top of the LXer home page! ;)

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