Yahoo tracker beacons
Amelie, 18 Dec 2005 12:39:55
doulos, 19 Dec 2005 02:32:39
Ah those are the things. Bloody annoying when I paste a yahoo sent
email into a webpage and find a bunch of embedded code screwing around
with it.
On 12/18/05, Amelie wrote:
> Subject: INFORMATION FOR ALL MEMBERS OF YAHOO GROUPS
> : http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/.
> If you belong to any Yahoo Group please read the
> following so you can find out how to "opt out" of
> information gathering on your computer.
> Takes about 30 seconds to fix.
>
> You are being tracked - Urgent information for all
> group members: If you belong to any yahoo Groups this
> is important... Sharing a titbit of information: Yahoo
> is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track
> Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're
> doing and where you are going similar to cookies.
> Yahoo is recording every website and every group you
> visit. Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
> http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
>
> About half-way down the page, in the section on
> cookies, you will see a link that says web beacons.
>
> Click on the phrase web beacons. That will bring you
> to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."
> In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt
> out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new
> method of snooping. Once you have clicked that link,
> you are exempted. Notice the "Success" message on the
> top of the next page.
>
> Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel
> Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo** the
> opt-out.
>
> You have to do this on each machine you use.
>
> Feel free to forward this to other groups.
>
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Thunder, 19 Dec 2005 14:35:23
In message
, doulos
writes
>Ah those are the things. Bloody annoying when I paste a yahoo sent
>email into a webpage and find a bunch of embedded code screwing around
>with it.
Actually Yahoo have had their so called beacons for years and are no
different from "tracking cookies"
When I first installed "Ad-Aware" I was amazed to find I had hundreds of
tracking cookies in my cache .
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^Thunder^