Re: Heads up to Rainbow Yahoo Groups - you're being tracked by a "Web Beacon!!

Thanks for the help B, i'll check that out.

Myself, i know that i am world famous, and governments all over the
world have files on me in a dozen aliases, so cookies and beams seem a
little redundant. When they are ready(possibly the day after they come
pick up SR, Joke, and Pathfinder), they will come for me. If i am lucky
My see eye aye connections will let me know in advance and i will be
able to hide at my secret farm in 'montana'. #

bodhi wrote:
> Forwarded:
> 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://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 on the next
> button shown.
> It is an "Opt Back In" button that, if clicked, will UNDO the opt-out.
>
> 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.
>
> Please forward this to your other groups. You might complain, too, but
> I'm not
> sure if anyone is listening..
>
> Yahoo Web Beacons Igniting Controversy Yahoo's current privacy policy
> is causing consternation among some users who object to their use of
> so-called 'web beacons'. Known in most circles as web bugs, these
> invisible images are embedded in websites and email and used to track
> your surfing - and even tell whether you've opened a particular email.
> http://antivirus.about.com/od/spywareandadware/a/yahoobugs.htm
>
> They have been using these "beacons" for about 1 1/2 years now, and you
>
> can't get all the cookies they or anyone else may put on your box out
> easily. Some need a third party software utlity that removes the
> resistant ones on re-boot, after you've run a clean-up process.
> They're a lot older than that, and they have nothing at all to do with
> cookies. They're cached elements, usually small graphics files with
> specific names. Sites track them by watching whether they're requested
> from that site or not. If 12345.gif is loaded from a user's cache they
> know that user has been to the place that "installed" that file.
>
> namaste;
> bodhi

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