Hi all, came across this little Gem while reading the fine print on a mailing from my ISP "... including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email." In the mailing "web beacons" was linked to: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/ca/pixels/details.html Seem Yahoo has decided to be evil and use WebBugs to track movements all over the place. I've been poking around and they are certainly going out of their way to make it difficult to block the pesky little things that they use on their websites (lots of different file names, in proper size specified to bypass thing that would look for a size of 1x1, etc.). So if you friends/family/colleagues even question Why Tor/Privoxy here is a shining example of why they are important. BTW their "opt-out" option isn't worth the bits that make it up as all they do is set a cookie (yeah.. o.k. I'll let you set permanent cookies so you wont track me with the webbugs. Do they think I'm that foolish? <sigh>). Sadly many people will probably miss that it is just a cookie, very correctly flush their cookies and (oops...) opt back in. Anyways, Just figured that this tidbit would be of interest to some here. Take Care, ------ Freemor <freemor@xxxxxxxx> Freemor <freemor@xxxxxxxxxx> This e-mail has been digitally signed with GnuPG
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