Re: Ubuntu and flash cookies

On 01/10/2010 12:22, NoOp wrote:
On 09/30/2010 07:11 PM, Tom H wrote:

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:08:19PM -0400, Tom H wrote:

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's a news article about flash cookies:
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110838/cookies-cause-bitter-backlash?mod=family-kids_parents

Does anyone have knowledge of them and whether they affect ubuntu or
Linux browsers/software in general?

They affect any browser that uses flash in any OS or distribution.

On Linux, you can delete them from
/home/<user>/.macromedia/Flash_Player/

On my box ~/.macromedia is empty. A better solution is the "Better
Privacy" extension (assuming you use Firefox).

Then "Better Privacy" must be doing its job...


Just be careful with 'Better Privacy' et al; many banking sites use the
macromedia folder to store their cookies (Chase Bank is an example)& if
you get the settings wrong those cookies get deleted. The result is that
you then need to do an email exchange with the bank the next time you
try to log in& that can become a real PITA if you log into your bank
frequently.


From the quick once-over while I was installing BetterPrivacy, you have
the ability to protect a cookie from deletion which would solve this
problem with banks. But as I said, it was only a quick once-over, and
since I never do any banking over the net this is not a problem for me
anyway.

BC

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