Yahoo Mail Upgrade - Scan and Analyse

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Topic started on 2-8-2011 @ 02:54 PM by Serafine

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I was reading this Thread ( by wiandiii ) in this forum, which brought to mind Yahoo7 ( Australia ) and a mail "upgrade" that they push when opening the usual Yahoo Mail...

KISSmetrics service tracks your net useage, can't be evaded, used by many sites
www.abovetopsecret.com...
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Now about Yahoo7! ( Australia ) mail upgrade, this is some of the "policy" on the Yahoo7 Mail upgrade...

1. What are “relevant ads” as they relate to Yahoo!7 Mail?

To make our ads more relevant and useful for you, we make educated guesses about your interests based on your activity on Yahoo!7’s sites and services, as well as provide ads that are contextually relevant to the page they are being served with. When you use the new Yahoo!7 Mail our automated systems scan and analyse all incoming and outgoing communications content sent and received from your account (such as Mail and Messenger content including instant messages and SMS messages) to detect, among other things, certain words and phrases (we call them "keywords") within these communications. This might result in ads being shown to you in Mail for products and services that are related to those keywords. In addition, these keywords may contribute to the interest categories we assign to your browser for interest-based ads that we show throughout the Yahoo!7 Ad Network. No additional ads are shown to you, just more relevant ads.

2. How does Yahoo!7 Mail message analysis work?

While many features in the Yahoo!7 Mail are new, the underlying technology that supports them is the same as the automated systems that already scan and analyse your inbox for spam, viruses, malware, and phishing scams. This technology looks for patterns, keywords, and files in Mail, Messenger, and other communications content. In order to bring you the newest Yahoo!7 Mail, , Yahoo!’s automated systems will scan and analyze all incoming and outgoing email, IM, and other communications content sent and received from your account in order to personalize your experience. This will result in both product enhancements as well as more relevant advertising in addition to a safer, less cluttered Mail experience.

etc.. etc...

Link <--- to Yahoo! Mail FAQ

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The spying and monitoring through the net is coming from many sides and angles. The databases and content are quite extensive ( always has been ) and being pushed, almost to form a new social "norm". Before long the "This is how you do it, this is how it's done" factor will be the response of many people.. That's just the way it is... along with a majority of not only ignorance ( not aware ), but acceptance.

This concerns hardware as well as software and protocols... The EFF in San Francisco found that most all printers leave "invisible" tracking codes on everything printed... It was the EFF crew that exposed this... NOT the government or corporations involved. It was essentially a covert issue... much like KISSMETRICS. This also includes internet /web means and also databases from many other sources.... all accessible, almost as one.

Most who have been dealing with computers since the beginning realize the web / net is an open public domain format and take it for granted EVERYTHING done on it is "open". This even comes down to corporations, governments and police ( legally ) manipulating and monitoring anyone's online systems. There is a difference between what "laws" establish as "can and can't be done" and what REALLY can and can't be done. As well, what can legally be done is often covert and the general net users have no idea...

I'll leave this with some segments of Eisenhower's Last speech as President. The famous...

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society....

...Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Link <--- Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

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I'm sure most of us at ATS can list at least 50 examples of spying and monitoring protocols and policies... the old ways and means... I'm going to sit under a tree with my guitar, in this electronic park internet and play some tunes... busk...

edit on 2011/8/2 by Serafine because: Clarity

reply posted on 2-8-2011 @ 02:57 PM by Frontkjemper

Star and flag from me. I don't know what else to say honestly, other then this feels too personal. I don't like it and hope it stops.

reply posted on 2-8-2011 @ 03:18 PM by hapablab

Today my youtube AND google accounts asked to call me, they wanted me to give my phone number to call my phone with a code. I x'd out, Im not giving my phone number, but now I can't get into any of these accounts until I do, why are they doing this. And yahoo is bombarding me with this new upgrade, I cant get my mail unless I click that hard to find fine print saying to skip it, and I dont want to upgrade and it comes up every time.

reply posted on 2-8-2011 @ 03:26 PM by Aliensun

Originally posted by Frontkjemper
Star and flag from me. I don't know what else to say honestly, other then this feels too personal. I don't like it and hope it stops.

I am no kind of a computer/internet expert other than the dumb kind. Years ago I would bitch to anyone that would listen to my ranting about how was it possible that outside forces could put cookies and all sorts of software into my computer without my permission. Wasn't that an invasion of privacy? Wasn't my computer similar to my telephone and mail? I would scream about why the government didn't do something about this problem. (Even if I did know they could track my mai and record my phone calls.)

At long last, the truth dawned on me. They allowed access to my computerized secrets to happen because they were planning to get their foot wedged into our computers too. And if we had not absolutely demanded that thay fix that original, rather minor incursion, then they would have the best argument in the world for what they had up their sleeve later.

Their capabilities today are akin to their being inside of our skulls and analzing every aspect of our thoughts, actions and even philosophies. The thought police are here, hanging over every keystroke. In the last twenty years your privacy has literally vanished by purposeful intent. Big Brother is watching you for real.

reply posted on 2-8-2011 @ 08:44 PM by Aliensun

The new Yahoo home page. I accepted it the other day although I don't use it.. My email comes via MS Outlook. Almost be accident this afternoon I brought the page up and noticed that the listing of top news stories were not the standard MSM type. They seemed to be tailored to my tastes as exhibited, of course, by my visited web sites which principally are ATS and Rense.

Now suppose they or somebody was to take this practice in reverse and started excluding links and sites that they didn't want us to see? It could become highly personalized. For example, I may have had an experience with MK-Ultra wayi back when..... But I lack data to prove a damned thing about it. Suppose, such data, perhaps even with my name or army serial number and/or other data appeared on some obscure site on the web. Could that not be easily kept from me with a brief "deny" checked box on an extensive profile with triggers affixed to my searches?

These days, you can't be too paranoid!

reply posted on 2-8-2011 @ 11:53 PM by DavidsHope

reply to post by Serafine

Nice to know other people are truly upset. Google does some of the same things, so I almost never sign in there. Now Yahoo has tried to outclass its users and cram its advertising down their throats. I only used Yahoo as a junk email anyway. I will not allow them. I won't even go in to close the account. It can just sit there and fill up with garbage. I will never go back into that mail again. I now have 1000 pop accounts available through my own website. I can make up an email address, use it for a day or month, then delete the entire address. Making a new one.
I hate the pop ups etc, and run anti scripting and anti flash software in firefox. I cc clean my entire hd every day, and even sweep all of its empty space. Cookies are disabled except when I sign in somewhere such as here to post. Right after I launch this post and give the star, I will once again clean the HD and enable all of my anti scripting and anti add software including refusing flash. No more. I even use an HTTPS search that doesn't record IP addresses. Not foolproof, but Yahoo will not be following me around, and neither will google.
No more yahoo search, no yahoo mail, and no yahoo period. I did the same with Google. All toast

reply posted on 3-8-2011 @ 12:25 AM by simone50m

I made a thread this morning about a quite meanspirited (apparent) mass IQ test which 'showed' those who do not upgrade from their default (Internet Explorer) browser, are nearly retarded. I'm not kidding. What a shocking and aggressive trick upon people. The only thing"upgrade" means to me, NO MATTER WHAT on the computer, it regards, is, "We need to get our foot wedged further and further in your personal door." Until there is no worldwide internet anylonger.

reply posted on 3-8-2011 @ 12:42 AM by twitchy

I started a thread back in 2005 about yahoo's tracking...
Do You Yahoo?
There used to be an option to opt out of yahoo's tracking, and I don't know much about the new Yahoo stuff, but they've been monitoring and tracking internet usage for years.

reply posted on 1-1-2012 @ 09:54 AM by calemus

reply to post by hapablab

is there a possability you can share the location of the opt out link you mentioned?
i use the old adress feature insted of letting them redirect me with the new adress & requirments

basicly i want to opt out of the spyware correctly insted of hacking my adress every time

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