hmmmnz
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 Posted: 00:13 - 06 Jan 2009  Post subject: yahoo group users read |
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Yahoo is Tracking Group Members
If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is
now using "Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user. It's
similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and
every group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo.
Look at their updated privacy statement at
https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html
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." On the page that opens,
on the left find a box entitled "Opt-Out."
In that section find "opt-out of interest-matched
advertising" link that will let you "opt-out" of their snooping.
Click it and then click the opt-out button on the next page.
Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your
ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE
specific. That means you will have to opt-out on every computer
(and browser) you use.
get to it and stop those bastards
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MattHirst
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| Posted: 00:28 - 06 Jan 2009 Post subject: |
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Can they even legally do that? 
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The Artist
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The Shaggy D.A.
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| Posted: 11:41 - 06 Jan 2009 Post subject: |
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| allymoss wrote: | that is completely and utterly illegal, it is effectively spyware without the secretiveness. |
How is it illegal? They've told you they are doing it, it's on their site and partner sites, and they're giving you the ability to opt out. And have been since 2005, when this first surfaced.
| Quote: | In general, any file served as part of a web page, including an ad banner, can act as a web beacon. Yahoo! may also include web beacons from third parties and affiliates within pages served by Yahoo! so that Yahoo!'s advertisers may receive auditing, research and reporting. |
Any page you visit, anywhere, can be recording the same details. If you don't want your "privacy invaded" use an IP spoofer, or don't use the internet.
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