Flash cookies

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 12/01/2010 18:24, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
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> Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 5:07:00 AM, you wrote:
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>> Today, had a look in the folders in
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>> ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/
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>> and 'susan-boyle.com' was still there . . .
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> ...old hack, but still quite useful...
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Does that refer to the following, or to me? . . .  :)

> Rename the "Flash Player" folder to "Flash Playerx"
> In the Macromedia folder reate a *text* document named "Flash Player"
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> Flash Player is now no longer able to store anything into the
> non-existent folder and is not able to create the folder since a file
> of that name already exists. It fails gracefully and moves on.
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Thanks for such a great tip.