Preventing sites from tracking you with cookies

[iTpHo3NiX]

I officially feel like a moron now but thanks for explaining this

Its ok we still <3 you 

[ande]

Uhm.. In response to the original topic, ofc there is no plain-text cookie information with SSL. That's the point.. SSL == encrypted traffic. There are (most of the time anyway, there could be) no difference in information storage on the server and client side with or without SSL(HTTPS).

[nzambi]

If you want to know who is tracking you online check out the Collusion add-on for FF, or to see how well your preventative efforts are working.

"Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the web."

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

[lucid]

If you want to know who is tracking you online check out the Collusion add-on for FF, or to see how well your preventative efforts are working.

"Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the web."

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

Sounds alot like Ghostery to me

[geXXos]

This add-on in some ways can be informative if you've never been aware of tracking and if you're worried about being tracked but there are a number of other add-ons you could use instead such as: Better Privacy, NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlockPlus, Request Policy and Privacy Choice.

[m0l0ko]

Anyone whos on linux, heres an easy way to delete LSOs:

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sudo rm -rf $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/*/*

[lucid]

Anyone whos on linux, heres an easy way to delete LSOs:

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sudo rm -rf $HOME/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/*/*

Are you sure the second /* at the end is necessary?

[m0l0ko]

Good point. The second /* is useless. I only recently started learning how LSOs work, I'd read that they can be freely accessed by any site, so I've been using BetterPrivacy. If you chmod 000 the SharedObjects folder, you'd prevent sites from being able to write LSOs completely, but would that interfere with other flash apps on their site?

[proxx]

Good point. The second /* is useless. I only recently started learning how LSOs work, I'd read that they can be freely accessed by any site, so I've been using BetterPrivacy. If you chmod 000 the SharedObjects folder, you'd prevent sites from being able to write LSOs completely, but would that interfere with other flash apps on their site?

Well a better method would be to run a browser through a shellscript that would afterwards delete the files.
Or at logoff/reboot depending if you turn on the machine or not.
Otherwise a cron can be set to rm the files.

[m0l0ko]

Yeah a cron shell script that wipes all these files would do it nicely, that bleachbit program seems to wipe out everything, if it has a good CLE then I can make various bleachbit cron jobs. Restricting access to the LSO folder is more of a hardening measure. Why let sites write LSOs in the first place since they're not necessary. I have BetterPrivacy, and the LSO window is always empty because nothing can read the folder where LSOs are stored. Same thing could be done for things like cookies.sqlite for firefox. A shell script that contains an array of files/directories, and an array of file permissions to chmod them. I'm gonna try that and see if firefox can still run without it, or whether it changes the file permissions (can it do that?).