Primex
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I received an email from someone that said they read this in an article:
****Subject: Yahoo Security
If you belong to ANY Yahoo Group - be aware that
Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track the Internet
navigation of every Yahoo user. It's similar to
cookies,
but allows Yahoo to record every website and every
group
you visit -ANYWHERE- on the Internet,
even when you're not connected to Yahoo.
To stop this privacy invasive surveillance, go to
Yahoo's updated privacy statement at:
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." On the page that
opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo
Network."
In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out"
link that will let you "opt-out" of their snooping. Be
careful (!) NOT to click the button shown on the
resulting
'You have opted out successfully' page. It is
a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will UNDO
the opt-out. Be warned!
Important:
Yahoo's monitoring
-- and your ability to opt-out of it --
is NOT user-specific.
It is MACHINE -and- BROWSER specific.
***This means you will have to set the cookie
'Opt-out' on -every- computer and -every- browser
you use to access Yahoo and the rest of the Internet.
*****Please forward this concern to your other groups.*****
Is this true or is it totaly bogus and someone just had a lot of free time on their hands?
****Subject: Yahoo Security
If you belong to ANY Yahoo Group - be aware that
Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track the Internet
navigation of every Yahoo user. It's similar to
cookies,
but allows Yahoo to record every website and every
group
you visit -ANYWHERE- on the Internet,
even when you're not connected to Yahoo.
To stop this privacy invasive surveillance, go to
Yahoo's updated privacy statement at:
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." On the page that
opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo
Network."
In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out"
link that will let you "opt-out" of their snooping. Be
careful (!) NOT to click the button shown on the
resulting
'You have opted out successfully' page. It is
a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will UNDO
the opt-out. Be warned!
Important:
Yahoo's monitoring
-- and your ability to opt-out of it --
is NOT user-specific.
It is MACHINE -and- BROWSER specific.
***This means you will have to set the cookie
'Opt-out' on -every- computer and -every- browser
you use to access Yahoo and the rest of the Internet.
*****Please forward this concern to your other groups.*****
Is this true or is it totaly bogus and someone just had a lot of free time on their hands?
