Fwd: [SoFlaVegans] Beacons: Tracking you Wherever you are!

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Note: forwarded message attached.Ronald A. Fells

N3VPU

Amateur Radio Operator

Everyone is raving about the all-new Mail Beta.

 

 

 

Beacons: Tracking you Wherever you are!

 

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15426

 

tracks all of its users everywhere on the web

and the way to opt-out is detailed below. If you have

a e-mail account or belong to one of 's

many , this probably applies to you.

has probably been tracking everything you do online.

Follow the instructions precisely to opt out of this.

Notice the important part at the very end.

 

" is now using something called 'Web Beacons' to

track users around the net and see what

you're doing and where you are going similar to

cookies. is recording every website and every

group you visit.

 

Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

http://privacy./privacy

 

About half-way down the page, in the section on

cookies, you will see a link that says web beacons.

Click on the phrase web beacons.

http://privacy./privacy/us/...s/details.html

 

That will bring you to a paragraph entitled " Outside

the Network. "

 

In this section you'll see a little " click here to opt

out " link that will let you " opt-out " of their new

method of snooping.

 

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.

Notice the " Success " message on 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. So don't reflexively click that

button, or you will undo the opt-out ! Feel free to

forward this to other groups. "

 

http://forevergeek.com/security/yaho...ere_you_go.php

 

This may be old news for some but I thought it would

prove useful to many.

 

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