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Google has recently released a Web browser add-on that will stop the browser from sending information to the Google Analytics service.

To provide website visitors with more choice about how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.

Mainly websites use Google Analytics service to know their site's traffic pattern and to optimize their website further for their visitors. When a person visits a site, Analytics creates a cookie on the person's computer. Cookies are small data files used to record information about how a person interacts with a website. You can easily remove cookies from any browser.

Few days back, we shared with you a portable Windows application, "Flash Cookie Cleaner" for cleaning Flash Cookies. Today, we are going to share a similar application "Flush.app" which is made for Apple Mac OS X users. We described in our previous article what these Flash Cookies really are. For those who are still ignorant about Flash cookies or super cookies, which is called Local Shared Objects (LSO), they work in a similar way as any regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser.

Flash Cookies also known as super cookies or Local Shared Objects (LSO) are a collection of data like cookies stored as a file on your computer. LSO's can be used by websites to collect information on how people navigate them. These LSO's are also used to track users and store information about them. You cannot usually delete LSO by using the privacy controls present in a browser.

To clean these persistent Flash cookies which is a great threat to the privacy, you can use a simple application known as Flash Cookie Cleaner. Flash Cookie Cleaner is a portable application available for free. It helps you to easily clean Flash cookies or super cookies from your computer with just a single click.