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by wladimir 5513 days ago
You could also use multiple profiles (at least in Firefox), one for browsing around and one for social network sites.

In that case there will be guaranteed no cookie cross-pollution as the sites are completely isolated from each other.

Just logging out is indeed simply ineffective.
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RexRollman 5513 days ago
My wife is a Google Chrome user and she logs into Facebook and Twitter in an incognito window. Everything else she does in a regular Chrome window (which is set to delete all cookie when the browser is turned off).

Another option would be to install a second browser and use it solely for FB/Twitter.

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code_duck 5513 days ago
If only... Facebook uses a Flash LSO, which is of course shared between browsers.
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wladimir 5511 days ago
"of course shared between browsers"

Is it? Are saying that the flash crap doesn't distinguish between browsers/profiles?

That's another very bad security problem with flash. For me, it's the final straw. I'm going to wipe flash from all my machines now.

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