Hey - did you know if you click on the title of a thread it will take you to the first unread post since you last visited that thread?
but were afraid to ask: 
STOP!! Never post your email address in open forums. Bots can "harvest" your email! If you must share your email use a Private Message or use the 
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I've got yahoo mail, they still tracking me? What I gotta do to give 'em the slip?
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elrey said:
I'm already a knuckle dragger, couldn't you tell?
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Ghostery - ad block and TACO, addons for FF, seem to help.
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Just my two cents ...
If you're using email, nothing will block the "tracking". Most email services can "scan" individual messages, to see what's being talked about - then target ads to what was in the email.
You send/receive emails about cars. A few hours later you notice your Yahoo (Google, whatever) page has lots of car ads.
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If you're using email, nothing will block the "tracking". Most email services can "scan" individual messages, to see what's being talked about - then target ads to what was in the email.
You send/receive emails about cars. A few hours later you notice your Yahoo (Google, whatever) page has lots of car ads.
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To a certain extent most things you do online are trackable at least by IP address. There's little you can do about that other than being careful where you go and what you do there. A few things that can help.
1. Don't use free email. Remember, <span style="font-weight: bold">if you don't pay, you're not the customer</span>. So drop your Yahoo mail and find another option. Your hosting may provide one, or find a friend who controls a domain and have them set you up an account.
2. Don't use a Google/Yahoo/Facebook/Twitter/etc account. Anywhere. Makes it a bit more difficult to do some things or to personalize these services, but they won't be able to link the actions to a user account if you don't have one. Make sure you reset your browser (clear all cookies and stored data) as just logging out of these services has proved to be not enough.
All that said, you have to figure out if the services offered are worth the cost. I've generally liked the services Google offers, so I'm willing (with some care) to use some of what they offer -- understanding that they will be collecting a certain amount of information while I do that.
Other services (like Facebook and Twitter) I find more invasive in their pursuit of my data and I go out of my way to avoid them. A shame, as there are good uses for these tools but those uses are just not worth the price they require.
1. Don't use free email. Remember, <span style="font-weight: bold">if you don't pay, you're not the customer</span>. So drop your Yahoo mail and find another option. Your hosting may provide one, or find a friend who controls a domain and have them set you up an account.
2. Don't use a Google/Yahoo/Facebook/Twitter/etc account. Anywhere. Makes it a bit more difficult to do some things or to personalize these services, but they won't be able to link the actions to a user account if you don't have one. Make sure you reset your browser (clear all cookies and stored data) as just logging out of these services has proved to be not enough.
All that said, you have to figure out if the services offered are worth the cost. I've generally liked the services Google offers, so I'm willing (with some care) to use some of what they offer -- understanding that they will be collecting a certain amount of information while I do that.
Other services (like Facebook and Twitter) I find more invasive in their pursuit of my data and I go out of my way to avoid them. A shame, as there are good uses for these tools but those uses are just not worth the price they require.
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All I have is a yahoo mail account. I don't tweet, cluck, quack or make any other animal noises. No facebook either. Am I still "at danger"? i hate to change my email.
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You have to define the word "danger" -- Yahoo is probably scanning all your emails and using that content for its own purposes. Of course, email is mostly sent around in the clear so it's not a secure communication anyways. If you're comfortable with that, then you've got nothing to worry about.
Yahoo (and the others) make their money by selling some version of your information to their customers (business, advertisers). The more they can gather about you, the more money they can make. It is possible to stay ahead of them <span style="font-style: italic">to some extent</span> but it takes work and knowledge.
Sometimes the bargain is worth it. I still use the Google suite of tools with an account as I find them useful and worth the information they do gather from me -- but I don't use Gmail. I don't use Facebook or Twitter as the value proposition just isn't there for me. Obviously it is for some folks and there's nothing wrong with that.
Today's Internet really has become much about tracking and data gathering (think of the Internet as a large marketing survey). As of now, if you want to use the Internet you pretty much have to assume that some level of your activity will be actively tracked. The players have figured out how to monetize this information, so they care about gathering it now. I'm not being paranoid, that's just the way it is. Learning to navigate this is the new 21st century skill.
So if you're happy with your Yahoo account and comfortable that your email contents are not private (and NO email contents are ever truly private) then there's really no reason to switch.
Yahoo (and the others) make their money by selling some version of your information to their customers (business, advertisers). The more they can gather about you, the more money they can make. It is possible to stay ahead of them <span style="font-style: italic">to some extent</span> but it takes work and knowledge.
Sometimes the bargain is worth it. I still use the Google suite of tools with an account as I find them useful and worth the information they do gather from me -- but I don't use Gmail. I don't use Facebook or Twitter as the value proposition just isn't there for me. Obviously it is for some folks and there's nothing wrong with that.
Today's Internet really has become much about tracking and data gathering (think of the Internet as a large marketing survey). As of now, if you want to use the Internet you pretty much have to assume that some level of your activity will be actively tracked. The players have figured out how to monetize this information, so they care about gathering it now. I'm not being paranoid, that's just the way it is. Learning to navigate this is the new 21st century skill.
So if you're happy with your Yahoo account and comfortable that your email contents are not private (and NO email contents are ever truly private) then there's really no reason to switch.
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I wonderd where their money came from. I thought it was just from advertising.
Honestly, I'm tried of this comsumer based majic talking box BS always trying to sell me something.
Any media outlet's only goal is to sell you a product, lifestyle or belief system. There isn't any entertainment or educational value in anything anymore.
I know of a first hand account where THE top named "educational" media intentioanlly tried to manipulate scientific data and someone's findings.
Luckily the person in question favor's her uncle when it comes to principle and speaking her mind. :wink:
Honestly, I'm tried of this comsumer based majic talking box BS always trying to sell me something.
Any media outlet's only goal is to sell you a product, lifestyle or belief system. There isn't any entertainment or educational value in anything anymore.
I know of a first hand account where THE top named "educational" media intentioanlly tried to manipulate scientific data and someone's findings.
Luckily the person in question favor's her uncle when it comes to principle and speaking her mind. :wink:
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Just got this in my e-mail regarding Gmail services, it came via a weblist I subscribe to and came from someone's workplace IT department... Read past the first paragraph, there is hope...
<span style="font-weight: bold">Dear Colleagues,
Do you know if Google is tracking your Web activity? If you have a Google account (for, say, Gmail) and have not specifically located and paused the Web History setting, then the search giant is keeping track of your searches and the sites you visited. This data has been separated from other Google products, but on March 1 it will be SHARED across all of the Google products you use when Google's new privacy policy goes into effect.
If you'd like to PREVENT Google from combining this potentially sensitive data with the information it has collected from your YouTube, Google+, and other Google accounts, you can remove your Web History and stop it from being recorded moving forward.
After signing into your Google account, type https://www.google.com/history into your browser. (Alternatively, you can choose Account Settings from the pull-down menu in the upper-right corner of a Google product such as Gmail, Google+, or Google.com. From the Account Settings page, scroll down to the Services header and click on the "Go to web history" link.) If your Web History is enabled, you'll see a list of recent searches and sites visited. Click the gray Remove all Web History button at the top of the page and a subsequent OK button to clear your Web History.
Just the way I like it, empty and paused.
This action also pauses the Web History feature so that it will no longer track your Web searches and whereabouts. If you'd like to fire it back up, simply click the blue Resume button.
(Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation)</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold">Dear Colleagues,
Do you know if Google is tracking your Web activity? If you have a Google account (for, say, Gmail) and have not specifically located and paused the Web History setting, then the search giant is keeping track of your searches and the sites you visited. This data has been separated from other Google products, but on March 1 it will be SHARED across all of the Google products you use when Google's new privacy policy goes into effect.
If you'd like to PREVENT Google from combining this potentially sensitive data with the information it has collected from your YouTube, Google+, and other Google accounts, you can remove your Web History and stop it from being recorded moving forward.
After signing into your Google account, type https://www.google.com/history into your browser. (Alternatively, you can choose Account Settings from the pull-down menu in the upper-right corner of a Google product such as Gmail, Google+, or Google.com. From the Account Settings page, scroll down to the Services header and click on the "Go to web history" link.) If your Web History is enabled, you'll see a list of recent searches and sites visited. Click the gray Remove all Web History button at the top of the page and a subsequent OK button to clear your Web History.
Just the way I like it, empty and paused.
This action also pauses the Web History feature so that it will no longer track your Web searches and whereabouts. If you'd like to fire it back up, simply click the blue Resume button.
(Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation)</span>