Ubuntu and flash cookies

[Vaibhav Dalvi]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> 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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Hey,
open Tools > Addons in Firefox's main menu. There in search box type
betterprivacy. You will get an entry in the results for this. Just install
it right off.
And it's firefox's plugin the OS shouldn't matter.
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