A competitor to CCleaner, BleachBit is a tool that cleans out workstation storage while eliminating cookies and other tracking objects in the system. Architecturally, BleachBit is unique in the sense that it actually has very specific ‘plug ins’ for clearing out the temp directories for specific applications or cleansing systems of particular targeted threats or concerns.
One of the unique capabilities of BleachBit is its ability to clear Evercookie, a NASTY tracking cookie implementation that is exceptionally persistent. It’s not so much an individual cookie as much as it is MANY “markers” (including cookies) that are stored in various locations on a machine. The markers tell a remote web site if the Evercookie has been placed, and it will “repair” or “rebuild” Evercookies even if you’ve deleted them, by looking for Evercookie backups in various locations.
According to Windows Club, Evercookie stores “markers” in the following locations:
- Standard HTTP Cookies
- Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies)
- Silverlight Isolated Storage
- Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out
- Storing cookies in Web History
- Storing cookies in HTTP ETags
- Storing cookies in Web cache
- window.name caching
- Internet Explorer userData storage
- HTML5 Session Storage
- HTML5 Local Storage
- HTML5 Global Storage
- HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite
From the BleachBit web site:
BleachBit 0.8.1 deletes DOM Storage (HTML 5 cookies) in five major browsers; deletes evercookie tracking; cleans Silverlight cookies, .ini configuration files, and VLC.
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more.
Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.
DOWNLOAD: BleachBit – Privacy Protection & Disk Cleaner Tool (v.81BETA)
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/
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