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[nooby]

BBC has this text.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10787882

[drongo]

Can't remember who it was. Basically you create a symlink so that all of your Flash cookies get sent to /dev/null . I assume this folder is not stored at shutdown. Flash cookies can be quite large.

Open a terminal and type the following:-

ln -s /dev/null /root/.macromedia

Thanks to whoever it was. Sorry I have forgotten your name, but at least I remembered your symlink.

[nooby]

Thanks, I looked there and found a lot of files.

You mean one can delete them without any trouble later.

I mean one goes to gmail so would it not take away my ability to log in or something?

Just me very naive I guess.

I rather delete such manually than trust some script me could mess up.

[drongo]

nooby,

Nothing to stop you manually deleting cookies from that folder after you finish browsing.

It's a hidden folder in Windows and it is difficult to delete anything from there. If you want to delete Flash cookies from a Windows machine just boot up in Puppy and mount the Windows partition.

If you are running from Puppy you can view the folder easily and delete anything you like. One benefit of running as root is you can do anything you like! (Of course you can mess up anything you like as well.)

There is a tool on the Adobe site that lets you delete cookies from a Windows machine but it doesn't delete the ones from Adobe.

I have never missed a Flash cookie after /dev/nulling it. I do keep some normal cookies on my machines, however. Not many though.

I don't want to be profiled, tracked, cross-referenced, marketed at, advertised to and so on. I don't really care if these people rely on my details to make a living. Let them eat their cookies if they are that good for people.

[nooby]

Thanks, yes that is why I love Puppy, it gives even total newbies control which is both good and bad.

I've messed up installations so many times. But wow how easy to set up a frugal install.

At one time me had 25 to 30 puppies and many others too.

Now I have at most 3 to 5 going. Quirky and puppeee and wary and Qret and Lupu and some more.

Quirky seems easiest for me to get used to. I don't like SeaMonkey though but have slowly accepted that it is there. Took me months to not get upset each time me saw it.

I use Firefox most of the time and try to learn Chrome too but very new to me.

[tubby]

nooby, doesn`t the firefox add on " better privacy" remove these flash cookies?.

[nooby]

[tubby]

I do not need anyone to test it for me nooby, as i already know it deletes all flash related cookies on my system.
Try it on your own, after all it is only another addon for firefox.

[nooby]

I am using Chromium on lupu 507 does it really help if Google do almost same thing.

Is there a Better Privacy version for linux chromium?

[jpeps]

Very helpful info. I just added BetterPrivacy..never heard of it before. I suspected flash was behind malware issues on Windows computers that weren't getting fixed by deleting cookies. Hopefully, this should fix it. I'm amazed that none of the malware software touches them.

[nooby]

I have read that they can be sued if they touch such things.
similar with some other malware.

It is a crazy world indeed.