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Flash cookies and your privacy

Flash are cookies or Local Shared Objects (LSO) and they are not deleted when you delete the cookies from your browser (unless you use a special add-on). Flash cookies like the regular cookies (txt files) contain some privacy information and can be used by some advertisers for tracking purposes. Unlike the regular cookies, LSO does not have a expiration date and the information inside can stay indefinitely. There are several ways to remove flash cookies:
1) Deleting them from the default folder where there are stored. The locations where they can be …