RE: [ba-unrev-talk] Fwd: [StorytellingInBusiness] prevent yahoo snooping
I did a google on
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=of
f&q=single+pixel+images+cookie and got 7,000 hits. It's a common practise. (01)
The best protection is to disallow cookies that track you across multiple
domains. (02)
-g (03)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org
> [mailto:owner-ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org]On Behalf Of Jack Park
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:04 AM
> To: ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org
> Subject: [ba-unrev-talk] Fwd: [StorytellingInBusiness] prevent yahoo
> snooping
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> >Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group
> >
> >users around the net and see what you're doing - similar to cookies.
> >
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> >Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
> >
> >
> >
> ><http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html>http://p
rivacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html
> >
> >
> >
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> >About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo!
> Network",
> >
> >you'll see a little "click here" link that will let you opt- out of their
> >
> >new method of snooping. Once you have clicked that link, you are
> opted out.
> >
> >Notice the "Success" message at 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.
> >
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> >
> >Rob Kall
> >
> >http://www.futurehealth.org/
> >
> >http://www.storycon.org/
> >
> ><http://www.brainmeeting.com/>Winter Brain Meeting Jan. 24-28,
> 2003 Hilton
> >Palm Springs, CA
> >
> >"In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat
> >their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great
> >merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man
> >feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of
> cannibalism."
> >
> >Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
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