fig
1st February 2004, 06:12 PM
Yahoo! uses web beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services.
Observer
If you are at all concerned with people knowing where
you go or what you do on yahoo......check it out.
Yahoo can track us and see what kind of sites we are
looking at!!
BUT, ALSO HOW TO OPT OUT OF IT!! Which I did, first
thing!
Here's how....
"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.
Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html
About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside
the Yahoo! Network", you'll see a little "click here"
link that will let you "opt-out" of their
new method of snooping. I strongly recommend that you
do this.
Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out.
Notice the "Success" message the top the next page. Be
careful because on that page there is a "Cancel
Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo** the
opt-out. Feel free to forward this to other groups. Of
course, if you don't mind Yahoo recording every
website and every group you visit you should ignore
this message.
Please also note that you must do this with EACH
BROWSER and EACH COMPUTER that you use!
an interesting snippet I've crossposted from a specialist interest board. what is a web beacon anyway?
Observer
If you are at all concerned with people knowing where
you go or what you do on yahoo......check it out.
Yahoo can track us and see what kind of sites we are
looking at!!
BUT, ALSO HOW TO OPT OUT OF IT!! Which I did, first
thing!
Here's how....
"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.
Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html
About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside
the Yahoo! Network", you'll see a little "click here"
link that will let you "opt-out" of their
new method of snooping. I strongly recommend that you
do this.
Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out.
Notice the "Success" message the top the next page. Be
careful because on that page there is a "Cancel
Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo** the
opt-out. Feel free to forward this to other groups. Of
course, if you don't mind Yahoo recording every
website and every group you visit you should ignore
this message.
Please also note that you must do this with EACH
BROWSER and EACH COMPUTER that you use!
an interesting snippet I've crossposted from a specialist interest board. what is a web beacon anyway?