Do Yahoo Spy On You?
Yahoo! Do Men Win? | 10.02.2004 18:20 | Cambridge | London
Below is public notification about a new Yahoogroups feature that you may wish to do something about.
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.
Have a look at their updated privacy statement at:
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 blue-colored, "click here" link that
will let you "opt out" of this new feature.
Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. Notice the
"Success" message at the top the next page. Be careful here...,
because on that page, there's a "Cancel Opt-out" button, just
below it, that if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. Feel free
to forward this to other groups.
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.
Have a look at their updated privacy statement at:
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About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo!
Network", you'll see a little blue-colored, "click here" link that
will let you "opt out" of this new feature.
Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. Notice the
"Success" message at the top the next page. Be careful here...,
because on that page, there's a "Cancel Opt-out" button, just
below it, that if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. Feel free
to forward this to other groups.
Yahoo! Do Men Win?
Comments
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Firewall
11.02.2004 19:52
Tony
Not just yahoo groups users
12.02.2004 01:11
Barney
Portscan? I think that's a little alarmist.
12.02.2004 01:17
Barney
Simple really
12.02.2004 10:48
So all the ad.doubleclick.*** code hidden in the site or not hidden as the case may be will be what is used to track people.
fredrico
e-mail:
musteatvegan@yahoo.co.uk
Is it hugely important
12.02.2004 16:12
Obviously you dont want people looking at email and blaa you send arround some of the time, but the police have the power to get stuff like that anyway, so some bit of stuff from yahoo in the scheme of things is pilferingly small, who cares
ed
e-mail:
ed@widee.eu.org
Homepage:
http://www.wide.eu.org
Jumping Conclusions
12.02.2004 19:36
French Department of Defense:193.252.72.142-193.252.72.142
French Department of Defense:217.167.182.1-217.167.182.255
popupad.net:66.230.219.137-66.230.219.137
Net-Send Spammer - Energis DSL Customer:81.77.139.90-81.77.139.90
Net-Send Spammer - Energis DSL Customer:81.79.28.235-81.79.28.235
bannerfarm.ace.advertising:209.255.6.77-209.255.6.77
US Customs:206.241.30.0-206.241.31.255
These ips may have changed now. I don't suggest that you use these ips to piss people off. ;)
Legal disclaimer - ips should be used in a fashion such as trainspotting. You write down the numbers for fun. NOT TO HACK COMPUTERS
Tony