Flash Cookies and DOM storage

[ProxRocks]

in regards to "It can't block those called by another Flash object, e.g, a movie."

from here - http://prxbx.com/forums/showthread.php?t...06#pid9906 -

(Nov. 17, 2008 06:02 PM)Graycode Wrote:  Long ago I removed the \Macromedia\ directory and replaced it with a FILE having the same 'Macromedia' name. The file content doesn't matter, zero-length is fine. Now when the software tries to create its sub-dirs with cookies & other data within that supposed directory, they can't. There is never anything contained within my \Macromedia because it's been made into a File, and thus is no longer capable of permanently storing that crud.

Almost all SWF still works normally. A few occasionally go silent, perhaps because they're relying on being able to store some crud that I wouldn't want. That may not be the solution that works for everyone. If you delete that file the software will recreate its directory structure.

The method works because Windows won't allow both a file and a directory to exist with the same name within the same path. I think Linux would, so linking it to /dev/null there would be equivalent.