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Re: Another Yahoo 'feature' you might want to opt out of


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Another Yahoo 'feature' you might want to opt out of
  • From: "egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:51:09 -0000
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Did you ever try Spybot Search & Destroy from Patrick Kolla to get
rid of all those nasties - it's quite good I think in removing all
kinds of cookies and spyware and there's regular updates.

Rob.
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Graham Howe" <graham@s...> wrote:
> From a recent post on thedvdforums:
>
> Yahoo! "Web Beacons" - you need to click on the OPT-OUT
button to
> opt-out (on each computer you use). If you don't Yahoo will follow
> you around on the Internet tracking the sites you visit and every
> thing you do and sends this info back to Yahoo for
"marketing"
info.
>
> http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html
>
> A simple click and I have opted out. It seems like this is now
> pretty common practice so I'm sure there are other sites/cookies I
> have on my machines that do the same :-(




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