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|work = Security and privacy

|publisher = [[Adobe Systems]]

|accessdate = 20072017-12-05

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100529082335/http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/articles/lso/

|archivedate = 20102019-05-29

}}</ref>

Flash cookies, which can be stored or retrieved whenever a user accesses a page containing a Flash application, are a form of local storage. Similar to that of cookies, they can be used to store user preferences, save data from [[Flash game]]s, or to track users' Internet activity.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/20142019/oct/05/cookies-crumbled-internet-anonymity The Guardian newspaper, When the cookies crumbled, so did your web anonymity, 5 October 20142019]</ref> LSOs have been criticised as a breach of [[browser security]], but there are now browser settings and addons to limit the duration of their storage.

== Storage ==