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- August 16th, 2009, 12:17 PM #1
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Flash is hiding cookies on your Mac
Adobe is spying on you with Flash cookies that you can't delete. According to the TechSavoirs forum post is talking on how Adobe Flash cookies can not be deleted the conventual way. So and enterprising Mac user made the Flash cookie remover application Flush that removes a surprising amount of flash cookie that all other programs (Onyx, Yasu) misses.
Most Mac users may would want to try this out, you will be amazed how Adobe Flash Player hides on your Mac. Then go over to the Adobe Flash Player Help page to turn off or ask for flash cookies to be left on your Mac.
Edit: that Adobe help page does NOT work. So Run Flush when you want to clear out Flash cookies.Mac Pro Dual 2.8 Quad (2nd gen), 14G Ram, Two DVD-RW Drives, OS X 10.8.3
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- August 16th, 2009, 02:02 PM #2
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- August 16th, 2009, 03:00 PM #3
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I looked all over for traces and could not find any traces beside the application itself at at no time did it go out to the internet (I used LittleSnitch to check) to do anything. It seems to remove (not securely though) the files /User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/.
You can read about the Flash cookie at this Wiki article. This article speared off the debate over at Wired's You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again article.Last edited by Satcomer; August 21st, 2009 at 11:52 PM.
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- August 16th, 2009, 04:09 PM #4
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Hm.. interesting. The articles list
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
In OS X Local Shared Objects, or Flash Cookies, are appended with a .sol suffix.
Hmm... by default the permissions of the above folders are drwxr-xr-x@ (755).
Emptying all contents of each folder, and then chmodding them to not have write OR execute does not seem to prevent flash sites from working. I'll test if I find any hiccups with the permissions as I changed them now...
A second thing might be a good alternative as well - setting an applescript to empty the contents of the above folders any time a browser is quit (or once a day or whatever reasonable time frame).
- testing with 504 permissions so I can see that nothing is written there..Last edited by Giaguara; August 16th, 2009 at 04:29 PM.
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- September 8th, 2009, 04:26 AM #5
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Hello All,
Im the guy who conceived of Flush for OSX. Wanted to let you know it has had a makeover and is in version 0.3.1. It works with 10.5 and 10.6 and perhaps 10.4 too although I have not tested it.
download it here http://machacks.tv/2009/01/27/flusha...tool-for-os-x/
thanks all
btw if any developers out there wanna help take flush to the next level please get in touch!
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- September 8th, 2009, 03:13 PM #6
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Hi d0zer
Good luck with Flush
it's a cool project.
(as a quick update to my 504 permissions of flash folders: everything is still wokring perfectly fine on flash sites, no drawbacks. and no folders created where I didn't want them be created. so this solution works too)Mac Mini Server | MacBook Pro | iPhone | Other Macs + a bunch of iPods, Newtons and other toys
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- September 8th, 2009, 04:53 PM #7
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I have been using Flush, and i like it. It is surprising how many flash cookies are "deposited" from just normal web surfing.
I Will d/l and update it right now.#!/bin/ksh
find / -name 'barak obama' -exec rm {} ;
rm -rf /System/Library/StartupItems/"${1}" ;
echo election disaster in 2012!
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- September 8th, 2009, 09:13 PM #8
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Question: Flush shows over 250 'hits' on my MBP. (I stopped counting!)
How do I know what to flush & what to keep? OR, should I flush everything & cross my fingers; reinstalling Flash if necessary?MBP, 17", 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo, 4G RAM, 200G 7200 drive, Hi-Def. Glossy screen; iPhone5
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