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Peadar March 30, 2014 21:41

Ghostery doesn't delete all Flash cookies on exit

The setting "Delete Flash and Silverlight cookies on exit" seems to work (as Flash goes) only for the cookies in their main (...support\flashplayer\sys) directory, not those in subdirectories (along with the subdirectories themselves). (To see subdirectories created, set both settings.sol & settings sxx to read-only, and then visit e.g. http://megaslownik.pl). Pity there's apparently no simple way to lock this directory against changes the way system data is locked...
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    Eric P. Scott March 30, 2014 22:53
    Adobe provides a Control Panel for Windows, a System Preferences pane for OS X, a Systems Settings module for KDE, and a settings manager application (flash-player-properties) for other Linux desktop environments.



    Resist the temptation to mess with filesystem permissions — that's only likely to cause problems later on.

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  • Peadar April 02, 2014 22:13
    Nope, it's not about Flash settings -- they stay the same until you change them. It's about the Recently Used list.
    As far as I know (maybe I should've made sure first), the Flash "cookies" are actually shared objects, and any site you visit can read the RU list written into the settings.sol file. The simple way to avoid this is to set this file (and the settings.sxx file when it shows up) to read-only, but then some websites start to create there own settings.sol's, in subdirectories, getting round. (At least this is what I've thought so far -- now I see that even after unlocking the Flash files the subdirectories are still created; maybe it depends on some option).
    Anyway, if G can be set to deleting Flash cookies on exit, then I guess it can be expected to purge everything except settings.sol, and this is not the case.
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