[PLUG] OT: Yahoo! is watching you...

[Bill]

OK, so webbugs use cookies, including pre-existing cookies carried by 
Yahoo users.  So if one instructs one's browser to discard all cookies at 
the end of a session (as Opera claims to be able to do automatically) this 
should provide for privacey, right?

The interesting thing is that if you use junkbuster and are a yahoo user, 
junkbuster won't protect you from yahoo's spying, 'cause you've already 
told it to let yahoo read yer cookies!  I guess you could restrict 
cookie-reading to login.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com or something.

Bill

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Sandy Herring wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote: 
> [...]
> > Thanks for the heads up, Sandy.  Now would someone kindly 'spain how
> > they do this?  Please disabuse me of my naivete.
> 
> They're also known as Web Bugs...
> 
> http://www.privacyfoundation.org/resources/webbug.asp
> 
> Sandy
>