Mark Grant
Canon user
Flash Cookies
Most computer users dont know what a flash cookie is.
They are cookies that are used to track and store information about youre web browsing.
They have been around for a few years but rarely get mentioned.
A flash cookie can be up to 100kb in size, a normal browser cookie is only 4kb.
Most experienced computer users will use free applications such as ccleaner http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner to clean their PC, but this does not clean the flash cookies.
The only way I have found to access them easily is to use the online tool at macromedia.com
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html#117717
This opens a control panel, scroll down the list of cookies, if the computer is a few years old there may be hundreds or thousands of them.
My PC that is only a year old had hundreds of flash cookies, many of the site names I had never visited, shows how much stuff gets planted by flash banner adverts etc..
You can delete them from the control panel.- ' delete all sites'
If you disable flash cookies some sites might not work, so maybe clearing them occasionally is the way to go.
That's my free tip of the day
How long was the list on your PC ?
Most computer users dont know what a flash cookie is.
They are cookies that are used to track and store information about youre web browsing.
They have been around for a few years but rarely get mentioned.
A flash cookie can be up to 100kb in size, a normal browser cookie is only 4kb.
Most experienced computer users will use free applications such as ccleaner http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner to clean their PC, but this does not clean the flash cookies.
The only way I have found to access them easily is to use the online tool at macromedia.com
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html#117717
This opens a control panel, scroll down the list of cookies, if the computer is a few years old there may be hundreds or thousands of them.
My PC that is only a year old had hundreds of flash cookies, many of the site names I had never visited, shows how much stuff gets planted by flash banner adverts etc..
You can delete them from the control panel.- ' delete all sites'
If you disable flash cookies some sites might not work, so maybe clearing them occasionally is the way to go.
That's my free tip of the day

How long was the list on your PC ?