BetterPrivacy - Security against long term tracking cookies.

According to me, today Internet is the biggest commercial platform in the world and information like user browsing habits, user's personal info etc are much valued here. Due to which a new variety of cookies called Local Shared Objects or commonly called 'Flash cookies' are used to gather this information. Flash cookies are a type of never expiring cookie which are stored on the users computer. Originally sites having flash content used the flash cookies to store the user's preferences on the site but in recent times there have been privacy concerns about them. Some of the security issues of the flash cookies are

• They do not expire.
• They are cross-browser meaning it doesn't matter which ever browser you are using till it supports flash content.
• The cookies do not need user or browser permission to send the information to its relative server.
• They are very well hidden and it is rather difficult to be aware of them.

You can get protection against this cookies by using a popular Firefox addon called "Better Privacy"


BetterPrivacy

BetterPrivacy is a popular and one of the most recommended Firefox addon, because it is easy to use and very effective. With one click it displays all the Flash cookies stored on the computer. Using its easy to use manager you can select which cookies to delete and which to keep. You can also select the automatic clean up option where it cleans all the cookies after the browser is closed. You can protect some of the cookies which you think necessary from the automatic cleanup.
To download and know more about the addon CLICK HERE