Comments on: Delete Flash Cookies

By: Arsenal FC

Arsenal FC — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:44:10 +0000

excellent, I like to do this manually as you know what you are getting rid of. there is a plugin for firefox that does this I think.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:35:38 +0000

Using good old Terminal.app we can do the following:

rm -RPfv ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/\#SharedObjects/*

rm -RPfv ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/*

# prompt for confirmation before attempting to remove each file

# just reply with ‘y’ or ‘n’; abort with ctrl-c

find ~/Library -type f -iname “*.sol” -exec rm -Pi ‘{}’ \;

By: Uninstall Flash from a Mac

Uninstall Flash from a Mac — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:54:10 +0000

[...] Flash is completely uninstalled from your Mac. You may want to go one step further and delete your Flash cookies yourself, since the app doesn’t always grab them on the way [...]

By: Dwight Stegall

Dwight Stegall — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:16:29 +0000

Flash Cookies are not evil if you know how to control them. I have uninstalled Opera and Safari for Microsoft Windows computers because they don’t allow you to do the following.

View my post here.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1210467d8af6a3cf&hl=en

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:17:15 +0000

Compared Flush to KFC in Snow Leopard. Flush left one LSO that it did not list. KFC deleted it.

Just an fyi…..

By: KFC – The Easiest Way to Delete Flash Cookies on the Mac

KFC – The Easiest Way to Delete Flash Cookies on the Mac — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:59:49 +0000

[...] discussed ways to manually delete flash cookies in Mac OS X before, but now there’s a little app called Kill Flash Cookies that does it for you, [...]

By: The Easiest Way to Delete Flash Cookies on the Mac - OS X Daily

The Easiest Way to Delete Flash Cookies on the Mac - OS X Daily — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:41:35 +0000

[...] discussed ways to manually delete flash cookies in Mac OS X before, but now there’s a little app called Kill Flash Cookies that does it for [...]

By: andy

andy — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:23:12 +0000

I went to the macromedia.com link above. Typical! The font was too small to read, so I zoomed in, and in and in, everything else gets bigger, but guess what? The crappy applet doesn’t. Just about sums up what a POS flash is on the web. Sooner flash dies the better.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:01:29 +0000

Use the Flash settings manager:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html

Note: The Settings Manager that you will see is not an image; it is the actual Settings Manager. Click the tabs to see different panels, and click the options in the panels to change your Flash Player settings.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:45:25 +0000

Hmmm… what would happen if these folders were cleared out, then changed to ‘Read Only’?

By: anon

anon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:01:48 +0000

perhaps you can add this? What sort of information is relayed with these “flash cookies” or LSO’s? And are they readable by other websites – ie: if I watch some videos on youtube, then go to say yahoo, can they tell what videos I watched? Or even that I visited youtube? Or is it harmless information such as volume levels, or window size, etc… Thanks again.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:37:40 +0000

Thanks! Good info to know.