[X4U] Yahoo is Tracking Group Members

Konrad Waibel overloadinfo at charter.net
Wed Jan 14 15:17:03 PST 2009


On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote:

> I got this from the CanonFD group.
> =========================
> Yahoo is Tracking Group Members
>
> If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now using
> "Web Beacons" 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.

This has come up since at least early 2003, and has even appeared on  
this very list before today.

K.



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