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I don't use any flash applications that I want to store anything. In the past (in linux) I did: rm -Rf ~/.macromedia && touch ~/.macromedia which stopped fl

by imurray 16y ago

I don't use any flash applications that I want to store anything. In the past (in linux) I did: rm -Rf ~/.macromedia && touch ~/.macromedia which stopped flash creating the ~/.macromedia directory and being able to store anything on disk. This caused problems with the odd rare site that insisted on storing things, and the BBC iplayer would become unresponsive. Now I call my browser from a shell script which deletes ~/.macromedia whenever I close it.

robin_reala 16y ago
iPlayer is currently requiring Flash cookies, but long term they say they want to transition to not needing them: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/06/lso_flash_cookies_and_media_pl.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/06/lso_flash_coo...
Tichy 16y ago
My experience with trying to disable cookies was that the (Flash) web became unusable. All sites with Flash content would just keep nagging and nagging.
- dhimes 16y ago
  somewhere on this site I posted my aliases for dealing with this problem ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401118 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401118 )