Most Internet users do not know that every step they make on the Internet is likely tracked by one or multiple companies. Tracking can be loosely divided into a first party and third party group. First party tracking is usually connected to the generation of visitor statistics, and less about the individual user. Third party [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Uncategorized

Question on how to clear individual cookies in the Google Chrome web browser just came up and I thought I write a small guide here on Ghacks about it. Google Chrome, just like any other modern web browser, accepts all cookies by default. Cookies are small data packages that are saved by domains on your [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Adobe announced in January that they would better integrate Flash Player with browser privacy controls for managing local storage. It basically meant that the storage of future Adobe Flash Player versions could be controlled directly by a web browser’s web history deletion options. Flash Cookies, or local shared objects, are stored outside of the browser’s [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Google Chrome is the only web browser that offers a direct link to access the storage settings of Adobe Flash Player to delete local shared objects, commonly known as Flash cookies. It still means that you have to click on an extra link to open the settings before you can delete the additional objects in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

One of the main problems with flash cookies, or local shared objects (LSOs), is that they are harder to clean than regular cookies. For regular cookies the browser offers all the means to edit and delete them. That’s supported by all major browsers for a very long time. Local Shared Objects on the other hand [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

One of the biggest privacy related problem on the Internet these days are information that are stored by the browser on the local computer. Most web browsers come with built-in tools to delete most of the data if the user knows how to configure the settings properly. To make matters worse, some data like Local [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

When you surf the web you leave traces behind, both remotely but also locally. While you do not have options to remove traces remotely other than obfuscating them by using proxy servers, vpn connections or other methods of that kind, you do have more options to deal with traces on the local computer system. What [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Websites and services can use several techniques to identify a specific user visiting their properties, or third party properties they are affiliated with. Among the most common ones are standard HTML cookies, but also so called Flash cookies, also known as Local Shared Objects. Evercookie takes this a step further by dropping as many cookies [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Computer users may run into the term tracking cookie frequently if they are using a security software like Norton 360 or Kaspersky Internet Security. These programs detect those web browser cookies, and offer to delete them from the system. The detection of third party cookies by security software does not mean that they pose the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera