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Flush... Flash Cookie Removal Tool For OS X.
For those who do not know about Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO), they operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Since virtually all internet advertising is delivered in Flash, Google/Doubleclick and all other internet advertising companies are sure
For those who do not know about Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO), they operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Since virtually all internet advertising is delivered in Flash, Google/Doubleclick and all other internet advertising companies are sure
What's New
Version 3.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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Flush... Flash Cookie Removal Tool For OS X.
For those who do not know about Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO), they operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Since virtually all internet advertising is delivered in Flash, Google/Doubleclick and all other internet advertising companies are sure to be tracking your browsing behavior with Flash cookies. These companies can see you traverse the Internet as you come upon the plethora of sites that contain their embedded advertising.
For those who do not know about Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO), they operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Since virtually all internet advertising is delivered in Flash, Google/Doubleclick and all other internet advertising companies are sure to be tracking your browsing behavior with Flash cookies. These companies can see you traverse the Internet as you come upon the plethora of sites that contain their embedded advertising.
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It is therefore useless.
roger.wilco reviewed on 06 May 2011
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Harv reviewed on 13 Feb 2011
Whenever I run Flush, I get the following:
File
Computer HDName:
Users:Shortname:Library:Prefereences:Macromedia:
Flash Player wasn’t found.
And then I must quit Terminal.
Has anyone else had this experience?
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Tom46 reviewed on 05 Oct 2010
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Pennyhead reviewed on 18 Sep 2010
I want to apologize to the Flush developer for not restricting my comments to the software. I have used Flush for quite some time, find it useful and recommend it to people I know. It does what it says it will do
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Go to the following folders and move all you find to the trash:
Your Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects
Your Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys
Go back to the Flash Player Folder. Do a Get Info on the #SharedObjects and macromedia.com folders. Lock them. Restart computer and you should be good to go.
You can check if this works by going to Hulu then see if Flush finds any Flash cookies.
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Harv reviewed on 30 Dec 2009
I only wish there were a scheduling capability/preference so I could automatically run it daily.
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just wondering if anyone else has noticed that....
yeah the PEACE button always makes me chuckle....but love this little app....great stuff....
i dont use any other app like this as read about the hassle most people seem to have and i know this may bot go into as much detail as others ( safari cookies i think it was called from apples site) but im using this little thing for now...
anyone know how to check for updates with this? do i have to keep checking here for the latest version all the time ?
will recommend this to friends
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Anyway, great little app, A couple of suggestions for the developer though.
Anyway you could make it so that it automatically runs when started and clears everything?
The "Peace" button made me chuckle, but I just want to clean out the cache as quick as possible, no extra buttons please :D
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Ralf_Runstedt rated on 29 Mar 2011