Was forwarded some info regarding Yahoo!, which I think needs wider airing. Summarised, Yahoo! places cookies on your computer, which it accesses even if you're not signed into their network. Want to opt out? Read the below information:
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 disclose the 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" buttonthat, 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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Have never used Yahoo Guido, but what a flipping cheek they have. Mind you do we really know what aol get up to???? Lol
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Have heard this before. they used to change your settings without asking, making them your default instead of google or what ever you use. I think they was made to stop that.
ReplyDeleteJenny <><
Thanks for letting us know this hon. I tend to float between Yahoo, MSN, AOL, all of them pratically for different things. I seems more and more our rights are being stomped on. Seems it should be a persons choice who does what with our info, within our own computers. (Hugs) Indigo
ReplyDeleteThank you Guido....once again, it shows are privacy is nill!
ReplyDeleteLisa
I just hate that they are allowed to do that. I never use yahoo.
ReplyDeletePam
Thanks for the heads up on that.
ReplyDeleteLori
Thank you, Guido! I use Yahoo.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Gina
Mmmm............that's a bit worrying!!
ReplyDeleteJenny
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