Tell Analytics to fuck itself.

gofuckanalytics() { echo "DELETE FROM moz_cookies WHERE name LIKE '__utm%';" | sqlite3 $( find ~/.mozilla -name cookies.sqlite ) }
See http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html if you are unclear about the Google Analytics cookie system. If Firefox is your daily browser, be a good Orwellian and run this command regularly. If you see, 'SQL error near line 1: database is locked', close Firefox and run again.

5
By: meathive
2010-03-07 09:16:14
echo find
4
Submit An Alternative

What Others Think

No idea why this was rated down. Very valuable.
klaymen · 831 weeks and 3 days ago
echo '127.0.0.1 analytics.google.com' | sudo tee /etc/hosts
linuxrawkstar · 831 weeks and 1 day ago
linuxrawkstar: nice, but there are several domains that work with the cookies - pagead2.googlesyndication.com being the most obvious.
meathive · 831 weeks and 1 day ago
Yeah
JohnyWalter34 · 289 weeks and 1 day ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

You must be signed in to comment.

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

Share Your Commands

Similar Commands

simple pomodoro

Read funny developer comments in the Linux source tree

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for: