I enjoy listening to music while I do my homework and lately Pandora has been one of my favorite music players. Pandora is a free music player that will play music that is similar to an artist or song that you specify.
The thing I find interesting about Pandora is that whenever I closed my browser, delete all my cookies and browsing history, and reopened the browser, Pandora remembers who I am and automatically logs me back in. Even after set my browser to start every session in a "private browsing session" (click here for more info) so that everything would be deleted when I close the browser Pandora still remembers.
I was really perplexed by how Pandora was doing this. About this point I realized that Pandora operates over flash so after a quick Google search I found out that flash stores what they call a "Local Shared Object" which is a basic form of cookie. After a quick search on Wikipedia I found a page on local shared objects and it also had where they were stored on most operating systems. Once I found out where they were located I went and deleted them all and sure enough Pandora at this point once again asked me for my credentials.
So a long story made short, if you want to delete all your history, cookies, and anything else that can be stored on your local machine by an internet site you will have to go outside of your browser to clean it all up.
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