Flash cookies: the bane of Internet users’ experience ever since it became public that companies were using them to track users—completely separate from normal browser cookies. It’s not easy for regular users to go digging around to delete Flash cookie data, but that may change soon thanks to Adobe.

The company has been working with developers from Microsoft and Google to implement a new browser API that will make it easier for browser users to get rid of the local shared objects (LSOs, also known as Flash cookies) used by the Flash Player. In fact, the new API (NPAPI ClearSiteData, for the curious) has already been approved for implementation, and is expected to appear in Firefox sometime in the near future.

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Adobe to finally give users better control over Flash cookies