Yahoo Spying On Your Group Browsing..!!!

#1

Got this off the wire, Yahoo and their new "Hyper Cookie" that spies on the groups you visit:

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..These "web beacons" are similar to cookies...

You can choose to opt out of this...Take a look at their updated privacy statement: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ ...

Scroll down to the section entitled "Cookies" and click the "Web Beacons" hyperlink...A second page comes up....About half-way down the second page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo", you'll see a little "click here" link that wil 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 opt out...Notice the "Success" message at the top of 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...

AYHJA

#2

innit nice?...
kill thy babysitter, I say!

#3

"Web beacons"...nice name...yeah right!

Anyhow, just opted out...
I ask:
is there anything left in this world that I can do w/out someone already knowing what it is and where I'm doing it?
](*,)

#4

Adp10: it's good having someone knowing what i'm doing cause i never really know!

#5

Thanks AYHJA.

#6

You're welcome, Pete, and others...

I knew that this was serious, when I looked at the page and couldn't find the frickin' OPT OUT link right away...If somebody didn't tell you that it was there, or you weren't readin' verbatim, you would have missed it...

I go through a great deal to protect certain things, privacy is one thing, but know where I'm browsing..??? That's something else, a horse of another color if you ask me...

AYHJA

#7

privacy is dead.
the only way to have privacy on the net is wishing to be so boring that no corporation is intrested in you.

#8

Thanks for this tidbit. I spread the word to everyone I know and to all my Yahoo groups. If it hadn't been for AYHJA, I wouldn't have known.
Thanks again!