[bookport] Re: An interesting forwardFw: yahoo is watching us
- From: Bruce Toews <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:07:29 -0600 (CST)
This is years-old news.
Bruce
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, David Bennett wrote:
As a rule I abstain from sending lots of forwards, especially to groups of
people, but this is information which I feel most of you will want to have.
It has very little to do with Book Port, so use or delete it at will. Again,
though, a number of you will find it applicable.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Lynn" <freespirit52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "M. World" <michellesworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mikes Mess"
<Mikesmess_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "ACB List" <acb-l@xxxxxxx>; "Simons Chat"
<simonschat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "real eyes" <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:06 PM
Subject: yahoo is watching us
> This came from the VIP list;
> Sharing a tidbit of information:
>
> 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 link that 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 "click here to opt
> out" link that will let you "opt-out" of
> their new method of snooping.
>
> Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.
>
> Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next
> page. Be careful because on that page
> there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked,
> will *undo** the opt-out.
>
> Feel free to forward this to other groups.
Peace & friendship, Nancy Lynn
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