Ubuntu and flash cookies

[Doug]

On 09/30/2010 11:00 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 01/10/2010 01:52, Adam Funk wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>
>>      
> Thanks for this - didn't know about this Addon. Now installed - and
> these cookies now won't last 2 seconds on this computer.
>
> BC
>
>    
I went to the netticat...website and snapped on the blue gadget at the 
top of
the page (this was in Windows) and nothing happened.  I went to the Wiki
page and found a link for windows and snapped on it and was able to install.
However, the page has downloads for windows and mac os-X, but nothing 
for Linux.
I went to the main page in Linux and snapped on the blue gadget and again
nothing happened. How did you d/l this for Linux? I'd like to put this in
PcLinuxOs, Ubuntu, and Debian.  (PCLO is a KDE distro, the other two are
Gnome, if it matters.)

Tried to get file with apt-get install.  System said it was doing something
about dependencies (I forget the wording) and then said it couldn't find
BetterPrivacy. (PcLOs.)

Please bear in mind that I'm a tyro with file management, etc. in Linux.
If it doesn't show in Synaptic, or the file-getters in Debian or Ubuntu,
I usually can't get the file!

--doug

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