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08 January 2009, 01:09 AM
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Yahoo web beacons
It's back ...
Comment: Yahoo maybe tracking your internet activity ... http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yah...g/details.html Yahoo is Tracking Group Members If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user. It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo. Look at their updated privacy statement at: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html 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, on the left find a box entitled "Opt-Out." In that section find "opt-out of interest-matched advertising" link that will let you "opt-out" of their snooping. Click it and then click the opt-out button on the next page. Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific. That means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use. http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yah...g/details.html 
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08 January 2009, 02:58 AM
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I may need glasses. I read the title as : Yahoo web bacon. Then I wanted bacon, and I have no bacon, now im craving bacon.
E* who said bacon ?*E
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10 January 2009, 10:16 PM
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Oh rats, I just fell for this one. I thought I knew better than that.
--NewZer0
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10 January 2009, 11:52 PM
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No wonder people get so confused when privacy statements are so poorly worded. It makes it very difficult to judge exactly what infomation Yahoo! is collecting from various sources, and it is unclear to work out when it talks about inside and outside the Yahoo! network, whether its talking about data use, or collection. (ie. If Yahoo! are providing ads to a non-yahooo! website)
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16 January 2009, 05:20 PM
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Yahoo! has a help page regarding this rumor that provides a little more plain language information about what web beacons do.
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