Comments on: How To Deal With SuperCookies

By: persephone

persephone — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:28:00 +0000

thank you all so much!!! There were hundreds.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:19:00 +0000

On mac, one place I found them is:
Users->username->Library->Preferences->Macromedia->Flash Player->folders
Check in each folder, and drill down in each one till you find a .sol file (if there is one).

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:46:27 +0000

Crontab is an amazing thing. Truly. It always works.

By: jetole

jetole — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:04:34 +0000

Actually on Linux it’s rather easy to delete them. Also, although I use Ubuntu on my desktop, the location is distribution independent since Flash is a third party proprietary (closed source) application. In order to delete all Flash cookies in your home directory (all Flash cookies that belong to you) run the command:

find ~/.macromedia/ -type f -name settings.sol -exec rm -v {} \;

If you want to make sure they are removed on a regular basis then you can simply add this command to the crontab (man 5 crontab).

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:59:38 +0000

I run Ubuntu 9.10 and found that these cookies are littered all throughout the system under the path home/username/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys. In this folder there are many other folders that all contain settitngs.sol file. If you want to manually remove these files you will have to go into multiple files and individually delete them. Or just install BetterPrivacy and let it automate this process. But anyway, that is where they hide the suppercookie in Ubuntu.

By: john

john — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:19:26 +0000

By: halil

halil — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:18:52 +0000

I have always hated Adobe and now I hate them more

By: marc

marc — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:18:31 +0000

I think the Better Privacy add-on for Firefox may do all this with a couple clicks. Not available for IE though.

By: mary w

mary w — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:08 +0000

if i delete this adobe flash super cookie that my apps. on facebook would stop the lag and jerking? i do farmville, and yoville (zenga games) and other games i’ve always done the ” history, tif ” delete ever night. also defrag once a week and have scandisk on desktop i use every night . so, do i go get super cookie for adobe as in instructions? will this keep it from the (not responding) sign too? yesterday i signed up for newsletter after my computer , while playing the games, gave me a not enough virtual memory and wow, i was amazed at the article, no paging file and set it to 3000. love the info!!!

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:01:22 +0000

I have always hated Adobe and now I hate them more