technically a web beacon turns out to be a simple gif image that gets
pulled from the yahoo servers so they can monitor whatever they are
inserting the image into (banner, page, html email...)
GMail blocks images inserted into HTML emails, and so does Pegasus,
but I'm sure hotmail doesn't, and maybe Outlook can too, but it's
probably disabled by default in the security settings oslt...
thanx, for the heads up on this
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:46:37 -0000, clive-harris
<clive-harris@ntlworld.com> wrote:
quoted 49 lines Dear all,
> Dear all,
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> I got this email from one of the Yahoo groups that I'm a member of. I thought you might be interested - in the interests of stopping "Big Brother-ness"!. Obviously, I don't know if any of you are members of any Yahoo groups, but I had to pass it on.
>
> Clive
>
> - - - - - - -
>
> "Hi folks,
>
> In case you are interested in protecting your online privacy: 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
> 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":
> http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html
>
> 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."
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
> a.. To visit your group on the web, go to:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cabaretvoltaire/
>
> b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> cabaretvoltaire-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
> c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
>
>
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