Re: Yahoo spying

I'm not sure if this what she means, but in IE when you click Tools > Internet Options and then the General tab:
the center area that deals with your Temperory Internet files has buttons to delete cookies and delete files.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Yahoo spying


What is a "cookie/view file" and where would one find it?

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Jan 29, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Donna wrote:


Now a days, you have to realize that you are on a public media
anywhere on
the internet. What you say or do is being watched by someone.

Anyone can read these messages in the archives. At least with
yahoo, the
moderators can make them only available to the members of the
group- or the
world.

Check your cookie/view file and clean it out constantly. Even your
viewed
pages files can relay info without a per say cookie. Visit a hort
page and a
cookie check will appear. (I know why Chris has that, it is not to
spy on
you, just not revote a zillion and one times on a picture, I asked
him off
list)

All you can do is run a tight security so it warns you when someone is
capturing info... but then they find another way... sigh.

Donna




-----Original Message-----

I thought I' might have read of it before - long ago, but it's
easy to
forget about these things.  As noted, it explains that opting out
only
covers the browser you're currently using.  If I did opt out 5
years ago
on
my old computer, it would have no bearing on my new computer.  Or
if one
of
us got a new computer at work.

Besides, with everything about the feds wanting info going on
right now;
it
now becomes a current affair.  Opting out is sort of  like taking
a stand.
Made me feel good.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Yahoo spying



This has been happening for years Kitty. If you are a yahoo group

member,

you also have to edit your marketing area as well.

Donna


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [mailto:owner-
gardenchat@hort.net] On
Behalf Of kmrsy@netzero.com
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:41 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] Yahoo spying

Friends,
I received the message below from my sister and found that it is
indeed
true. Just on the slightest chance that it could be a spoof of some
kind, I went directly to Yahoo rather than using the links
provided in
the message. It was all true and I opted out.


Google is fighting the feds spying but Yahoo agreed without
flinching.
I'd rather not give thm any more than I have to.

Kitty

-- Maureen Hawkins <hawkms@uleth.ca> wrote:
Hi,

    I don't know if this applies to either of you, but, if so, I

thought
you might want to know.

Sue
Subject: [freecyclelethbridge] Yahoo groups spying on you
From: "kim" <lezzeeboi@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sat, January 28, 2006 11:39 am
To: "free cycle" <freecyclelethbridge@yahoogroups.com>
lethcafe@yahoogroups.com
------------------------------------------------------------------- ----
---

      The following was posted to another group i belong to, just
passing
 it along FYI

 If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now
 using &quot;Web Beacons&quot; 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.

 http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html

 Click on the phrase &quot;Web Beacons.&quot; On the page that
opens,
find
a
 paragraph entitled &quot;Outside the Yahoo Network.&quot;

 In that section find a little &quot;Click Here to Opt Out&quot;
link
that
will
 let you &quot;opt-out&quot; of their snooping.

 http://pclick.yahoo.com/p?optout

 Be careful! NOT to click on the next button shown. It is an
&quot;Opt
 Back In&quot; 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..

 Related article:

 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







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