Yahoo and Privacy

kusadasi-guy · #1 Dec 5th 2004, 2:41 am

Hi all;

has anyone read this page
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy

Quote:

Yahoo! uses web beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services.

and this page
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/...s/details.html

Quote:

Yahoo! uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites and also for auditing purposes.
Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report aggregate information about Yahoo! users to our partners. This aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners from this research.
When conducting research Yahoo!'s practice is to require our partners to disclose the presence of these web beacons on their pages in their privacy policies and state what choices are available to users regarding the collection and use of this information. You may choose to opt-out of Yahoo! using this information for this research. Please click here to opt-out.

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Do you think that they store only our demographic and usage informations?
i clicked that page:
http://pclick.yahoo.com/p?optout

and it said "You have opted out successfully."

flawebworks · #2 Dec 7th 2004, 4:59 pm

This has been going on for years...

protesto · #3 Dec 10th 2004, 1:25 am

To disable tracking:

1. Go to the address -http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy and click the "Cookies" link under the "Special Topics" column.

2. Click the "Web Beacons" link under the "Reference Links" Column.

3. On this page, click the "click here to opt out" link toward the end of the third paragraph under the "Outside the Yahoo! Network" title.

4. After a while, a page that says you have been out of the monitoring program will load. Without doing anything, close that page or continue your usual surfing by typing another address in the address bar. (Do NOT click the "Cancel Opt-out" button, your action will be cancelled!)

5. You're done! Now Yahoo! will not record what you're doing during surfing.