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Web Sites Using Flash Instead Of Cookies To Track Your Activity
7:00AM Adam Pash | Wired reports that over half of the web’s most popular sites are using Flash to track users who block traditional browser cookies. More »
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Cookienator Cleans Up Questionable Cookies
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Portable application Cookienator cleans up cookies from any of the major browsers, but instead of removing all your cookies, only removes the ones that are used to track you. More »
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BetterPrivacy Prevents Tracking By Flash, Other “Super-Cookies”
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox: Even if you regularly clean out your cookies or use a privacy-plus extension like Stealther, Flash videos and other objects leave all kinds of traces on your machine. Until they meet BetterPrivacy, that is. More »
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Privacychoice Stops Advertisers From Profiling You
2:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Web site Privacychoice rolls the opt-out routines for a couple dozen advertising networks into a single javascript button—so you can stop them tracking you without having to mess with cookie settings. Most advertising networks provide a mechanism to opt out of their user tracking systems, which works by them placing a cookie on your computer that tells them not to track you. Privacychoice automates the process of submitting each of the forms, saving you a lot of time if privacy is your goal—though you could simply setup CCleaner to wipe cookies on a schedule to prevent anybody from tracking your behaviour online. Privacychoice is free, works in most browsers. Privacychoice [via gHacks] More »
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AtomicCleaner Cleans Up Your Temp Files And Gaming Mess
5:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Free computer cleaning application AtomicCleaner has the standard roster of cleaning tools like temp file deletion and cookie removal, but goes a step further and includes a cleanup option for gamers. The Gamer Cleanup clears out the sometimes monster-sized temporary gaming cache files. AtomicCleaner is a free download for Windows only. Atomic Cleaner [via gHacks] More »
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iRemember Fixes iPhone’s Cookie-Forgetting Problem
1:07AM Kevin Purdy | For jailbroken iPhones: For some reason or another, the mobile Safari browser on some updated iPhones and iPod touch models seems to constantly drop cookies, making iPhone-friendly sites like Google Reader and Remember the Milk a lot less useful. iRemember, a free one-fix app, makes a simple change in the Unix-y guts of your phone to help Safari hold onto its cookies better. Installing the app requires adding a repository to your Installer sources, but the fix seemed to work in a quick test, at least on Google sites. iRemember is a free download for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches. Fixing Safari Cookie Bug with iRemember! [Just Another iPhone Blog via iPhone Freakz] More »
CCleaner 2.0 Decrapifies Your PC
11:30PM Gina Trapani | Windows only: One of our favourite PC cleansers CCleaner (which stands for “Crap Cleaner”) saw an upgrade this week. Since the last time we mentioned CCleaner several new versions have come out; this week’s added support for the Firefox 3 beta plus performance improvements and bug fixes. CCleaner scans your PC for unnecessary temporary and log files, cookies, memory dumps, and more and wipes them out at the press of the “Run Cleaner” button. You might be surprised at how much disk space it can recover—in fact, it managed to clear out 1.6GB of crap from my PC. See screenshot evidence after the jump. More »
