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Getting Rid of Nasty Flash Cookies on Linux

Posted by tuxchick on · 8 comments
LinuxPlanet; By Carla Schroder 		Mail this story
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Flash cookies are the secret nasties of using the Flash player on any platform, and most computer users don't even know they exist. Like HTTP cookies, it is rather naive to assume that they are always used for our benefit. In this two-part series, Carla Schroder shows the Adobe way and then the Linux way of managing Flash cookies.

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Comments (8)

tracyanne ·
by setting the permissions of the folder they are written to, to list only. the flash video still work fine.
ComputerBob ·
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 ·
Point us to tutorial on this, Please!
tuxchick Story submitter ·
Colonel, I am shamelessly poaching all of these good ideas and rolling them into an article which will run tomorrow on LinuxPlanet.
ColonelPanik ·
o/ /o/ o /o Yea TC.

Thanks even though I know you had this idea a long time age.
ComputerBob ·
TC, did you change your mind about writing your article?
Sander_Marechal ·
ComputerBob: Carla's article is already in the queue.
ComputerBob ·
Now I see it - at the top of the LXer home page! ;)

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