Guest guest Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 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. Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy statement: click Yahoo! Privacy 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. 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. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. 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. Feel free to forward this to other groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Yahoo and the rest of the electronic media is always snooping. That's what spybots are for, and we are never free of them. You can do all the opting out you want, that's not going to turn off those spybots. The passage of the Partiot Act gave them the legal right, under the guise of national security. If you doubt that, write someone an e-mail about getting rid of the pres (not me, thanks) and see how long ot takes the FBI to land at your door. They just arrested a schoolkid in Tucson for saying something seditious. Big Brother is watching, the days of free speech in this country are sadly numbered. Spybots are programmed to search for key word and phrases (and that list is in the tens of thousands). They then kick the e-mail out for scrutiny by a real person. Kathy __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Yahoo and the rest of the electronic media is always snooping. That's what spybots are for, and we are never free of them. You can do all the opting out you want, that's not going to turn off those spybots. The passage of the Partiot Act gave them the legal right, under the guise of national security. If you doubt that, write someone an e-mail about getting rid of the pres (not me, thanks) and see how long ot takes the FBI to land at your door. They just arrested a schoolkid in Tucson for saying something seditious. Big Brother is watching, the days of free speech in this country are sadly numbered. Spybots are programmed to search for key word and phrases (and that list is in the tens of thousands). They then kick the e-mail out for scrutiny by a real person. Kathy __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Yahoo and the rest of the electronic media is always snooping. That's what spybots are for, and we are never free of them. You can do all the opting out you want, that's not going to turn off those spybots. The passage of the Partiot Act gave them the legal right, under the guise of national security. If you doubt that, write someone an e-mail about getting rid of the pres (not me, thanks) and see how long ot takes the FBI to land at your door. They just arrested a schoolkid in Tucson for saying something seditious. Big Brother is watching, the days of free speech in this country are sadly numbered. Spybots are programmed to search for key word and phrases (and that list is in the tens of thousands). They then kick the e-mail out for scrutiny by a real person. Kathy __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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