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How To Opt Out of Yahoo Surveillance

xxxx | 04.01.2005 13:19 | Repression | Technology

Yahoo is figuring out new ways of tracking it's YahooGroup users to make money out of them. Find out how you can easily stop them using you!

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.

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'. ( http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html)

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. ( http://pclick.yahoo.com/p?optout)

Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. 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.

This applies only to a specific broswer, rather than user, so you have to do it for each browser/computer you use.

Pass the message on!

xxxx
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04.01.2005 19:21

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Use a list server run by activists rather than one run by a global capitalist corporation?

Riseup are popular:  http://lists.riseup.net/ and there is the UK based AxtiviX collective that offers lists for activists:  http://www.aktivix.org/ and there are lots of other around the world...

Chris