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The privacy tools built into all current browsers can clear all but one of evercookie's storage methods. Specifically, cookies, cache, history & HTML5 storage should all be included in your browser's "clear private data" feature. Flash cookies are a bit more of a problem: they're in a plugin, so the browser doesn't know about them. A tool like CCleaner would work, or you could clear them manually with Adobe's Flash control panel: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

i use a ff extension called better privacy for managing flash cookies, it comes in handy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/

rm -rf ~/.macromedia works pretty well.

...followed by ln -s /dev/null ~/.macromedia

That breaks some things.

i.e. the escapist thinks you're a scraping bot and bans you from viewing their videos for a week.

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