I was recently made aware of Yahoo's use of Web Beacons that allow a web site to
count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. If you use
Yahoo, this may be of interest to you.
More information and the ability to opt out are found at:
-Original Message-
From: Michael Costolo [mailto:mcostolo;yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FYI for Yahoo users
I was recently made aware of Yahoo's use of Web Beacons
that allow a web site to
count users who have visited
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pll;lanminds.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:41 PM
To: Derek Martin
Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group
Subject: Re: FYI for Yahoo users
In a message dated: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:12:58 EST
Derek Martin said:
At some
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, at 12:12pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One countermeasure you can exploit is your e-mail client's ability to not
automatically display HTML mail.
Or to do minimal processing of HTML mail. Pine's HTML interpreter is
pretty simple, and it doesn't retrieve images, store
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, at 1:39pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using galeon, with preferences set to
Load images - From current server only
also eliminates this problem.
I've found that the above breaks a lot of websites that legitimately put
their images on more than one server.
--
Ben
