[ale] LSO cookies

[Michael Trausch]

Correction: they're still under ~/. macromedia/, not .adobe
On Oct 19, 2012 12:46 AM, "mike at trausch.us" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 10/18/2012 11:24 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > My question at the ALE meeting tonight was about LSO cookies.
> >
> > Wikipedia reports LSO stands for Local Shared Object aka flash cookies.
> > Every time I close Firefox I am asked if I want to save X number of LSO
> > cookies.  My kneejerk reaction is, of course, to say "NO!"  But I am
> > curious as to which sites are trying to store this crap on my box.  To
> > that end I need to see them, but I can't find them.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue where to look?  I've tried the obvious places,
> > such as ~/.mozilla and ~/.kde.
>
> Flash LSOs are stored somewhere under ~/.adobe/Flash_Player -- but the
> more curious thing is the prompt.
>
> The screenshot would be useful here in order to attempt to see the
> styling and where perhaps it has originated.  What sort of plugins do
> you have other than Flash?
>
>         --- Mike
>
> --
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> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
>                                    --- Carveth Read, “Logic”
>
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