Clear Flash Cookies & Disable From 3rd Parties

by Don Von Alpha Dom · 5 posts
13 years ago in Trackers

Posted 13 years ago · Author

There are some people who will try to track you and gather info on you through flash cookies.

To help prevent this, go here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/docum ... ger03.html
Clear data from all websites.
Go to global security settings tab.
Disable 3rd party flash cookies and storing of common flash components.

Posted 13 years ago

Local Shared Objects (LSO) are stored here:

Windows Xp:

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C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support

Windows 7/8/10:

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C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects

Macintosh OSX:

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/Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player

GNU-Linux:

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~/.macromedia

Appdata and Application Data are hidden system folders, you have to set "show hidden files folders and drives" in the folder options menu to see it. I don't use MacOSX or Linux very often so I am not sure if the folders are viewable by default.

Here is a Firefox addon that will give you better control over LSOs

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/

Here is a batch script that remove the LSOs for you. It works on Windows Xp and Windows 7 and I am sure it will work on Vista. This will delete the entire Macromedia folder where the LSOs are stored, then rebuild it. This removes all the LSOs and tracking directories and only rebuilds the Macromedia system folders.

Code

@echo off
cls
color 09
rmdir /s /q %appdata%\Macromedia\"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security\FlashPlayerTrust"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer"
mkdir "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys"
pause

For more information on LSOs, visit these websites:

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http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/04/flash-cookies-explained/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object

Posted 13 years ago

Hmm. i wasnt fully aware about this. thanks to u both.

Posted 13 years ago · Author

Bulldog wrote:
Hmm. i wasnt fully aware about this. thanks to u both.

No problem.

Just a heads up for everyone, some streaming porn sites no longer work when you disable flash cookies from 3rd parties.

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