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I have made ~/.macromedia a symlink to /tmp, which means Flash cookies are regularly wiped.

• politician 15y ago
  Great solution! Note to self: figure out how to do this in Windows
  • ashmud 15y ago
    Use mklink /j or junction (SysInternals). Optional: Combine with a ramdisk, such as Dataram.
• MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  Cannot upvote this enough. I just saw the trash in ~/.macromedia and was stunned. Immediately rm -rf everything and made the symlink. Will be doing it on my girlfriend's macbook as well.
• cs702 15y ago
  I'd be reluctant to make a symlink inside your home directory to a system directory like /tmp -- there are always unforeseen consequences. (For example, every backup of your home directory could end up including an unintentional copy of _everything_ in /tmp at the time of backup.) IMO it's better simply to add "rm -rf ~/.macromedia" to the list of shell commands that get executed upon every login -- or add the commmand as an entry on your personal crontab.
• newman314 15y ago
  Alternately, I uninstalled Flash months ago and use Chrome whenever I need Flash. Seems to have worked out okay for me.