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10-18-2013, 08:07 AM
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Location: Nanjing, China
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Where are flash cookies stored
I am in China. I use Astrill as VPN. Today the Chinese govt totally blocked the BBC. Now I know the BBC is a very biased news source, but I try to read between the lines.
One thing Astrill support told me was to go to this link to look at and remove all flash cache cookies:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager07.html
I would like to know where they are stored on my laptop. Then I can get rid of them myself. Or just change the write permission of the relevant folder.
I use Ubuntu 12.04
Last edited by Pedroski; 10-18-2013 at 08:08 AM.
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10-18-2013, 12:49 PM
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If you have access to BleachBit in your software installer it could work, I use Firefox it lets me clear the cookies in the options
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10-18-2013, 12:50 PM
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10-18-2013, 01:39 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2005
Location: boston, usa
Distribution: fedora-35
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in fedora they are located in ~/.macromedia.
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10-18-2013, 01:46 PM
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(~/.macromedia) looks like same here in Debian land (which Ubuntu is based on)
Edit: the . at start means hidden file or folder and of course ~ is /home
Last edited by jamison20000e; 10-18-2013 at 01:51 PM.
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10-18-2013, 06:33 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,643
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link ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
to /dev/null
Code:
rm ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
ln -s /dev/null ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
that will keep all flash "forever cookies" off the system
this is a very OLD hack, i think at least 8 to 10 years old
Last edited by John VV; 10-18-2013 at 06:36 PM.
Reason: added to
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10-18-2013, 07:36 PM
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Thanks for the advice. Could you please just help with the tilde '~' in
rm ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
ln -s /dev/null ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
I should write:
rm /home/pedro/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
ln -s /dev/null /home/pedro/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
or is the tilde sufficient??
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10-18-2013, 07:41 PM
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Registered: Oct 2008
Distribution: Slackware [64]-X.{0|1|2|37|-current} ::12<=X<=15, FreeBSD_12{.0|.1}
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Assuming your user is pedro then either will work.
The tilde simply gets expanded by the shell to /home/pedro so they are equivalent.
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10-18-2013, 08:37 PM
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Yeah that's me pedro! Thanks.
What does this code actually do? It sends anything written to /home/pedro/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects straight to /dev/null??
/dev/null is what? A non-existant address range??
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10-18-2013, 11:31 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedroski
Yeah that's me pedro! Thanks.
What does this code actually do? It sends anything written to /home/pedro/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects straight to /dev/null??
/dev/null is what? A non-existant address range??
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/dev/null, also often known as the "bit bucket" is a "device" that can be written to and read from just as most other devices. So it looks like any other filesystem location to programs reading and writing to it.
But anything written to it is simply discarded. When read, it simply returns NULL and the end-of-file marker.
So by symlinking the flash cookie file to /dev/null, flash still "sees" the writable cookie file. When flash tries to read those cookies, it finds an empty file - the cookies written to it are gone forever.
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10-19-2013, 03:19 AM
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pedro@peterpu:~$ rm ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
rm: cannot remove `/home/pedro/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects': Is a directory
pedro@peterpu:~$
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10-19-2013, 03:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedroski
pedro@peterpu:~$ rm ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
rm: cannot remove `/home/pedro/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects': Is a directory
pedro@peterpu:~$
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Try...
Code:
rm -rf ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
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10-19-2013, 03:44 AM
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symlink
That did the trick, I think.
Does this look ok??
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02-05-2014, 12:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John VV
link ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
to /dev/null
Code:
rm ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
ln -s /dev/null ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects
that will keep all flash "forever cookies" off the system
this is a very OLD hack, i think at least 8 to 10 years old
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Can one cat (a text files content) to /dev/null in such a way it keeps the file there but always empty? I'm sure link would not work but where can I place the command?
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