Re: ADMINISTRATIVE: Yahoo Groups privacy issue
dmccunney <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.handhelds.palm.peditors |
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:33 PM, John Markley <[email protected]> wrote: > I just received the post copied below from one of the Pimlico DateBk Yahoo group admins <...> > Related article: > http://antivirus.about.com/od/spywareandadware/a/yahoobugs.htm Note that the "Related article:" dates from 2005, and is likely out of date now. Yahoo is using tracking cookies. No surprise, many outfits do. Turn off cookies in your browser and they stop working. If you get Yahoo Groups mail in HTML format (and good heavens, *why*?) switch to plain text format. If you have Ad Aware installed, run it, and have it kill tracking cookies. Meanwhile, the web beacons report the IP address of the user who has one, but that's relatively anonymous, as finding out who a particular IP address belongs to is a non-trivial process that may involve a court order. (A "whois" on my IP address will tell you it's part of a block allocated to my ISP. My ISP is unlikely you tell you it was allocated to me without legal compulsion.) > ~ John ______ Dennis ------------------------------------ Latest pedit/pToolSet/LapTopHack at http://www.osuweb.net/~pc/pca/pc_all.zip pedit/pToolSet/LapTopHack scripting info/resources at http://www.peditors.com Peditors Forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peditors Unsubscribe by writing to peditors-unsubscribe-hHKSG33Tihh4sT85+ipIM4ckdKdSAMto@public.gmane.org! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peditors/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peditors/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/