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Do Yahoo Spy On You?

Yahoo! Do Men Win? | 10.02.2004 18:20 | Cambridge | London

Do Yahoo Spy On You?

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! Do Men Win?

Comments

Display the following 6 comments

  1. Firewall — Tony
  2. Not just yahoo groups users — Barney
  3. Portscan? I think that's a little alarmist. — Barney
  4. Simple really — fredrico
  5. Is it hugely important — ed
  6. Jumping Conclusions — Tony

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