Pixel trackers

not to be too paranoid and lacking the technical knowledge about this but recently I was alerted to 'single' pixel 'trackers' or web beacons - being lodged on to Yahoo Groups users and which could track the people involved in these groups in subsequent web-browsing.

Are we beinf 'traced':-) then and if so what dark secrets will TI5 hold on us forever:-)

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Web Beacons

Web pages may contain electronic images (called a "single-pixel GIF" or "web beacon") that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Yahoo! uses web beacons in the following ways:

Within the Yahoo! Network

Yahoo! uses web beacons within the Yahoo! network of web sites in order to count users and to recognize users by accessing Yahoo! cookies.
Being able to access Yahoo! cookies allows us to personalize your experience when you visit Yahoo! web sites that are located both on and off of the yahoo.com domain. For example, Yahoo! GeoCities pages are mostly located on the geocities.com domain.
Outside the Yahoo! Network

Yahoo! uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites and also for auditing purposes.
Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report aggregate information about Yahoo! users to our partners. This aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners from this research.

so any photo we download of a fictional Oldton could be tracking us i presume?

interesting idea

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