Flash Cookie Cleaner is a free attractive tool that helps you get rid of your Flash cookies in an easy and convenient way. It automatically scans your system and provides you with a quick report of all the cookies found, the domain they come from and the date they were last used. You can then decide which cookies stay and which cookies go, and keep your private navigation habits private.
Useful as Flash cookies usually are - saving your time when logging in to your favorite pages and accounts, keeping track of your game scores, etc. - they are also a potentially dangerous source of information. This is when they become "Persistent Identification Elements" (PIEs) and "Local Shared Objects" (LSOs) . These can say a lot about your navigation habits, about the things you buy in the Internet and where, the banks you work with, and so on. While disabling your browser's capabilities of storing cookies will surely make browsing the Web a lot less comfortable, keeping them permanently stored in your system may put your privacy at risk.
Flash Cookie Cleaner will keep an eye on all those "convenient" cookies and will keep you informed about the sites that left them there and about the last time you used them. This information will help you decide if they are really worth keeping or not - you can then move to the "Ignored Cookies" tab all those you want the program to skip when performing its cleaning duties.
Finally, and to make your life even easier, Flash Cookie Cleaner can be scheduled to scan your computer daily, weekly, or monthly.
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