-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fw: [His_Helping_Hands] Yahoo and privacy!
- From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:17:21 -0400
Yes. But personally, I don't worry about it because I keep cookies, cache
and history and everything else cleaned up.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fw: [His_Helping_Hands] Yahoo and privacy!
> Hi Don,
>
> So even though I "opted out" of the web thing on yahoo, since I use
> cleanup
> every so often, I have to opt out again each time after I use cleanup?
>
> christy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:11 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fw: [His_Helping_Hands] Yahoo and privacy!
>
>
>> This has been circulating around the internet for a while now. Yahoo
>> does
>> indeed use web beacons as described in their TOS and the instructions to
>> block the web beacons are also provided.
>>
>> What is not made perfectly clear is that a cookie is required on your
>> computer to keep them disabled and a different cookie is required for
>> each
>> browser that you use. So if you use FireFox, Mozilla and Internet
>> Explorer
>> you will need three different cookies on your computer. Also, these
>> cookies
>> must be protected from such utilities as CleanUp, Ad-a-ware and Spy Bot
>> or
>> they will be deleted and you have to go through the blocking process all
>> over again.
>>
>> Now comes the big question....
>>
>> Is the Yahoo the only website you visit that does this? Of course not.
>> But
>> have you read all the TOS and privacy policies on all the websites you
>> visit
>> to find out for certain? Of course not... very few people read those
>> documents and very few that do understand all the legal gobblety-gook in
>> them.
>>
>> I would suggest that Yahoo, Google, MSNBC, CNN and most other large,
>> reputable firms are probably pretty safe with certain data about your
>> internet habits and do not connect that data to personally identifiable
>> data
>> such as your name and address or account numbers. For that reason, I
>> simply
>> delete all of my cookies and all the other usual stuff frequently and I
>> have disabled external items in html email. I also sometimes use false
>> names and throwaway email addresses.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Judith" <jtb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:01 PM
>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Fw: [His_Helping_Hands] Yahoo and privacy!
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