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?

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On 2010-09-30, Cybe R. Wizard 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 do. I installed the BetterPrivacy add-on in Firefox and
discovered I had flash cookies going back well over a year. I now
have it set to delete them after 90 minutes and when I close Firefox.

http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm


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On 09/30/2010 08:24 AM, Cybe R. Wizard 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?

Yes.


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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:58:07 -0700
NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 09/30/2010 08:24 AM, Cybe R. Wizard 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?
>
> Yes.
>
Heh. Thanks loads!

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> >

> > 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?

>
Ghostery is also a helpful extension if you want to cut down on third party data collection.

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On 09/30/2010 09:22 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:58:07 -0700
> NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> On 09/30/2010 08:24 AM, Cybe R. Wizard 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?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
> Heh. Thanks loads!
>
> Cybe R. Wizard

:-) Glad to be of help :-)



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Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Here's a news article about flash cookies:
> http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110838/cookies-cause-bit
> ter-backlash?mod=family-kids_parents
>
> Does anyone have knowledge of them and whether they affect ubuntu or
> Linux browsers/software in general?

Sure Ubuntu is affected if you have flash installed. But flash cookies
aren't really new. Here is something even more sinister:
<http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/The-zombie-cookie-1095232.html>


Nils

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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:19:28 +0200
Nils Kassube <kassube@gmx.net> wrote:

> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > Here's a news article about flash cookies:
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110838/cookies-cause-bit
> > ter-backlash?mod=family-kids_parents
> >
> > Does anyone have knowledge of them and whether they affect ubuntu or
> > Linux browsers/software in general?
>
> Sure Ubuntu is affected if you have flash installed. But flash cookies
> aren't really new. Here is something even more sinister:
> <http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/The-zombie-cookie-1095232.html>
>
>
> Nils
>
Oh, just wonderful. I suppose it will be
browse-in-a-virtual-environment for me from now on.

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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard@mindspring.com> 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/

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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@mindspring.com> 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).

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