Ubuntu and flash cookies

[Adam Funk]

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