Can't keep up with all the snooping - about Yahoo Groups

16 years ago

I received this email. You might be interested in knowing Yahoo and their advertisers put tracking cookies on your computer. Here's the email.......

If you belong to ANY Yahoo Group - be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track the Internet navigation of every Yahoo user. It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website And every group you visit -ANYWHERE- on the Internet, even when you're Not connected to Yahoo.

To stop this privacy invasive surveillance, go to Yahoo's 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.

Looks like this...

Cookies

Yahoo! May set and access Yahoo! Cookies on your computer.

Yahoo! Lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Yahoo!'s cookies.

Yahoo! Uses web beacons to access Yahoo! Cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! Products and services.

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.

Looks like this...

Outside the Yahoo! Network

Yahoo! Uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites and also for auditing purposes.

Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report anonymous individual and/or aggregate information about Yahoo! Users to our partners. Aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners from this research.

When conducting research Yahoo!'s practice is to require our partners to di! sclose t he presence of these web beacons on their pages in their privacy policies and state what choices are available to users regarding the collection and use of this information. You may choose to opt-out of Yahoo! Using this information for this research. Please click here to opt-out.

Be careful (!) NOT to click the button shown on the resulting 'You have opted out successfully' Page. It is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will UNDO the opt-out. Be warned!>

Important:

Yahoo's monitoring -- and your ability to opt-out of it -- is NOT user-specific.

It is MACHINE -and- BROWSER specific.

*** This means you will have to set the cookie to 'Opt-out' on - Every- computer and -every- browser you use to access Yahoo and the rest of the Internet.

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pawsitive_gw
16 years ago
That was easy, thanks, didn't hurt at all!
pattico_gw
16 years ago
I am so stupid when it comes to things like this...

Is this a one time thing?

I have a Yahoo mail account and a Yahoo tool bar. What else do they have that a person might use?

Just wondering how they can do this...is it legal?

patti
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bestlawn
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16 years ago
Patti, this applies to members of any Yahoo Groups. I can't say it applies to their email accounts, but I wouldn't doubt if it does. You'll have to read their privacy statement in the email accounts to find out for certain. This is a portion of the privacy statement for their Groups, which obviously is little privacy at all. But it was not excerpted from the privacy statement of their email accounts or toolbar.

The Privacy Act where the internet is concerned is still very fuzzy. I think they are required to tell people what they do in their privacy statement. I also think they are required to provide viewing of the privacy statement along with their terms of use at the time you sign up. Most of us don't read those, just assuming we will not violate familiar rules. They rely on us not reading them, but, it's a good idea to read them whenever joining a website or group, when creating email accounts, and when installing anything.
Linda Wayman
16 years ago
Thanks for the info Mallory.

Linda
mtnwomanbc
16 years ago
Thanks! Since I use three browsers, it was good info to know that I needed to opt-out on each browser.
dustygal51
16 years ago
Thanks so much! Big brother is in our lives too much as it is.
joyfulguy
16 years ago
Amen!

ole joyful
OklaMoni
16 years ago
WOW, Mallory I just did what you suggested at the top of this post. WOW, you must have done quite a bit of snooping to find this.

Thank you so much for posting this info. I copied and pasted and saved your directions.

Thanks a WHOLE bunch!

Moni
heather_on
16 years ago
Thanks, I did that.

Now I am getting a message on my Yahoo toolbar to upgrade my toolbar now. It may have been there before and I didn't notice it.

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