TER General Board

Use a Mozilla browser
mephistopholis 1 Reviews 3383 reads
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You can eliminate 3rd-party web beacons if you
use the Mozilla browser.

It allows you to prohibit loading images from 3rd party websites.

(Edit/Prefences/Privacy & Security/Images)

It also offers nice cookie control and you can adjust
settings to eliminate many/most popup windows.

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.

Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html

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. I recommend doing this.
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.

You can eliminate 3rd-party web beacons if you
use the Mozilla browser.

It allows you to prohibit loading images from 3rd party websites.

(Edit/Prefences/Privacy & Security/Images)

It also offers nice cookie control and you can adjust
settings to eliminate many/most popup windows.

Tammy,

Thanks for the info.  I am a Yahoo user and had not realized this change in privacy.

As I understand this matter and in reading the privacy statement, it seems that these beacons that Yahoo tracks are just for web sites within the Yahoo network.  TER and other such sites are not in the Yahoo family of sites.  While opting out of Yahoo web beacons will increase your privacy in the general sense, I can't see Yahoo promoting any area of hobbying.

-Hoot.

Rodney Kink3440 reads

Thanks for the warning about the "Cancel Opt-out" button. They're tricky little devils aren't they?

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