[ICOM] Yahoo Web Beacons

[KD5SFA]

Old news...they've been doing this for several years now.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "D C (Mac) Macdonald" <k2gkk at juno.com>
>Sent: Dec 18, 2005 5:52 PM
>To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net, icom at mailman.qth.net, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, national at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [ICOM] Yahoo Web Beacons
>
>
>Purloined from another list.
>
>Mac, K2GKK in Oklahoma City
>
>
>---------- Forwarded Message ----------
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>TAKE WARNING
>
> 
>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:
>
>http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
>
>About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies,
>you will see a linkthat 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 link that will let you
>"prevent" their new method of snooping.
>
>Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.
>
>Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next screen.
>Be careful, because on that page there is a "Cancel"
>button that, if clicked, will *undo* your decision.  This
>is pretty sneaky.
>
>I've been advised that you have to go through this on each
>computer you use and each browser you use on each computer.
>
>
>
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