How to Remove Flash Cookies to Stop Web Sites Tracking You Secretly
How to Remove Flash Cookies to Stop Web Sites Tracking You Secretly
Have you ever thought of the privacy of your browsing when you surfing the Internet? Maybe you will notice to clear your history and cookies after a session. But actually your tracks are not entirely gone. In fact, there is still another type of cookies which calls Flash Cookies or Local Shared Objects (LSOs) you haven't delete. In order to improve your privacy, I will show you how to remove such files to stop web sites tracking you secretly.
What is Flash Cookies or LSOs?
Flash Cookies or LSOs are cookie type files which is used by Adobe Flash Player. They can save your settings and preferences when you are watching video on a website for better playback. Also they can store unique identifiers which keep track of the sites you're visiting. What makes worse is some of them will use the collected data to recreate regular tracking cookies even after you've removed them.
Manual Settings
Note: Since Changing Flash Settings on the Adobe page is unnormal, make sure to check things carefully.
To ban the LSOs on your machine in the first place you need to go to the Global Storage Settings panel on the Adobe site (Link Below) and make the appropriate changes. The Settings Manager on the Adobe site is not a screenshot, but actually is the panel for making changes to how Flash will behave in your browser. If you move the slider all the way to None, when a Flash app wants to use storage space (insert a Flash Cookie), you'll need to give it permission.
In this part I set the local storage to "None". You can see it asks for permission to store the data when I go to MySpace and try to play a song.
If you want to turn them off entirely, just move the slider all the way down to none and check the box "Never Ask Again". If you uncheck the box next to "Allow third-party content to store data on your computer", it will keep advertiser flash cookies off your machine, but also makes many flash apps not work.
To remove existing Flash Cookies, select the "Website Storage Settings" tab (located all the way to the right of the screen) and click on the "Delete all sites" button.
Also you can right-click on a Flash app on a particular page and change the settings. Keep in mind it will only apply to that app on that page, and won't change the setting globally.
Since it can be tedious and annoying while this method works, we will take a look at some other solutions.
Remove LSOs in Firefox
If you are just a user of Firefox, there is a quality Add-on called "BetterPrivacy" which allows you to delete flash cookies after each browsing session.
After the installaion BetterPrivacy for the first time, go into Options and you'll be surprised to see the amount of LSOs are listed.
Of course you can go in and manage different settings like deleting LSOs on exit, application start, by timer, create a shortcut key to delete LSOs and more.
Additionally, one special option you might want to select is to add LSO item to the Firefox "Clear History" dialog which isn't there without the Add-on.
Using CCleaner
You can choose CCleaner to delete LSOs if you are using IE or any other browser. Since the Flash Cookies are set to be removed by default, you might want to double check to make sure. In the Cleaner section, click on the "Applications" tab, the scroll down to Multimedia and make sure Adobe Flash Player is checked.
When you are running an analysis, you will see the results. Simply double click on Multimedia Adobe Flash Player to see what it found.
Depending on how much browsing you've done and the last time you deleted the LSOs, you might be surprised how many are found. Click "Run Cleaner" to get rid of them.
Remember when you download CCleaner, make sure you're getting the custom version which does NOT include an attempt to add a worthless toolbar to your machine. We have provided a direct link to the "Slim" CCleaner below. Or you can also download it which automatically denies installation of extra Crapware .
Note: Perhaps you will need LSOs on your computer for certain Flash Apps to work at the time you're at the site. But you will not need them on your system after you're done playing a game or listening to music. Flash Cookies are used by websites to track your browsing habits and some recreate regular cookies. You'll absolutely want to remove Flash Cookies if you're pretty concerned of your online privacy.
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