{"id":865,"date":"2003-01-14T18:01:17","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/15\/yahoos-getting-pushy-again\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:33:51","slug":"yahoos-getting-pushy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/01\/14\/yahoos-getting-pushy-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#039;s getting pushy again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15475,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/privacy.yahoo.com\\\/privacy\\\/us\\\/pixels\\\/details.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140722190122\\\/http:\\\/\\\/privacy.yahoo.com\\\/privacy\\\/us\\\/pixels\\\/details.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:11:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:11:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15476,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001194.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150907175832\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wilwheaton.net\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001194.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:11:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 19:11:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Yahoo! wants to know who you are, where you&#8217;ve been, and where you&#8217;re going&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Yahoo is now using something called &#8220;Web Beacons&#8221; to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you&#8217;re doing &#8212; similar to cookies. Take a look at their updated <a href=\"http:\/\/privacy.yahoo.com\/privacy\/us\/pixels\/details.html\" title=\"Yahoo! Privacy\">privacy statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  About half-way down the page, in the section &#8220;Outside the Yahoo! Network&#8221;, you&#8217;ll see a little &#8220;click here&#8221; link that will let you opt-out of their new method of snooping. You may want to do this. Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out.<\/p>\n<p>  Notice the &#8220;Success&#8221; message at the top of the next page. Be careful, because on that page there is a &#8220;Cancel Opt-out&#8221; button that, if clicked, will <em>undo<\/em> the opt-out.<\/p>\n<p>  Sneaky little devils!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hardly use Yahoo! anymore ever since they started charging for remote e-mail access, but other people might want to keep this in mind. I don&#8217;t want someone tracking my movements online anymore than I&#8217;d want someone tracking my movements in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/mt\/archives\/001194.php\" title=\"Important privacy notice for Yahoo! users\">Wil<\/a> for the heads up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is now using something called &#8216;Web Beacons&#8217; to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you&#8217;re doing &mdash; similar to cookies. Take a look at their updated privacy statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}