If You Use Yahoo Groups...

[badstar]

Hey people...got another question for the masses.

Who uses yahoo groups?

For those of you who do, are you familiar with their policy on "web beacons"? (I think that's what they're called?)

Now, I know that it's really pretty impossible to keep my web use from being tracked and I don't do anything illegal to be worried about, but I still don't really want to be tracked around the web, and if I can avoid it another means of tracking being put on me, I will.

My minor dilemma:

Everyone uses yahoo groups.

For some things that I'm involved in right now, I pretty much NEED to join some groups- either that or be badly out of several loops. I stopped using my yahoo account ages ago, and yahogroups along with it. There are also a number of groups that I WANT to join.

I know that you can join yahoo groups and that there's an option to turn off this web beacon thing. I've also heard that it gets randomly turned back on for you after a while and that you have to go in and turn it back off again. Can anyone confirm any truth to this? It won't bother me so much if I can turn it off and forget it.

thanks for any info!


cross-posted to aposoc-l

Comments

Re: here you go

[majorchaos.livejournal.com]

First, sorry an unknown is jumping in here, I was reading the friends list of a friend and found this information.

As an addition to the "watch our for the Cancel" button, make note of the "NOTE" just below the link to "opt-out", copied here...

Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific user. Therefore you will have to opt-out separately from each computer or browser that you use.

If I understand that correctly, every computer you on, you need to do the opt out. I would guess also, that you might want to do it with every browser you use too. Just to be safe. :D

Re: here you go

[fuego.livejournal.com]

no need to apologize, thanks so much for pointing that out, I may never have noticed.

Re: here you go

[fuego.livejournal.com]

cool...thanks for the clarification, what you said about being confused because of the browsers makes good sense. I plan to just sign in on one computer, subscribe to the lists I want/need on a non-yahoo account, opt out of the tracking thing and be done with it.

Do you know if it's that they somehow put these things on every browser that you use to read the email, or just every browser that you actually sign into yahoo on?