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Thursday, October 14, 2010

BleachBit 0.8.1 released, deletes evercookie | BleachBit

BleachBit 0.8.1 released, deletes evercookie

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

Submitted by andrew on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 07:22

release

BleachBit 0.8.1 deletes DOM Storage (HTML 5 cookies) in five major browsers; deletes evercookie tracking; cleans Silverlight cookies, .ini configuration files, and VLC; adds Traditional Chinese; and updates 24 other translations
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Changes

The following changes have been made since 0.8.0:

Delete DOM Storage in Firefox 3, Google Chrome, and Opera.
Completely remove evercookie tracking, a system that "produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser." Clean evercookies in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari. Test it yoursel:create an evercookie on Samy Kamkar's evercookie site, clean it, and check on the same site it is gone.
Clean VLC (VideoLAN Client)'s .ini configuration file.
Add generic capability to clean most .ini configuration files through CleanerML. Because .ini is not standardized, additional work is needed to some kinds of .ini files.
Specific to Linux
- Add .deb package for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
- When running as root, refuse to open web browser (such as for help contents) with root privileges.
- Delete about 16MB more localizations as tested on Ubuntu 10.10.
- Fix missing menu shortcut on Ubuntu 10 (LP#592051).
Specific to Windows
- Delete DOM Storage in Internet Explorer and Safari.
- Delete last session in Internet Explorer and Safari.
- Delete Silverlight cookies.
- Vacuum Safari.
- Clean memory dumps.
- Define %localappdata% environment variable on Windows XP, and use it for many existing cleaners. This may provide more reliable detection of files on certain Vista and Windows 7 systems.
Specific to web
- Now you can follow BleachBit on Twitter.