My yahoo policy for years has been avoid, avoid, avoid, and if you can’t avoid it, avoid it.
I think @sempterobit has ment it ironically ( wasn’t really a question ), or?
I don’t think my browser can even open Yahoo.
When the question is asked I always say no, but they keep asking expecting a different result. In other words the definition of insanity is Yahoo s business model.
You are correct. It s disgusting how they keep asking the question though. I actually think they are sharing it regardless if I agree or not. There s really no way of me knowing if they do.
It’s inconceivable to me that they would even phrase the question like that. They clearly didn’t expect their readers to actually read those things. And then when someone tries to sue them, they will use this explicit statement as proof of customer consent.
Simply no To YakPoo OOPs I meant Yahoo!.
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- No thanks, I am well aware you are collecting my data anyway.
- Yes, it would make me feel better to pretend the choice I make on this screen actually does something meaningful.
What I do for a lot of these pop ups is that I create filter rules through ublock origin and then I never see them again. If I never answer do they track me anyway?
here in Germany even the state went and pressed all technical means on Medics and they created a network where everyone’s history is stored in a database, no one was asked if they agree their data to be stored, the government just did it. Also during the time of the Corona-Paranoia, they tried to press people the install tracking apps on their phones, and we were not allowed to travel, also many people were threatened to lose their jobs if they do not vaccinate. Lawyers who opposed those incisions in human rights were closed and segregated. Amazon is about to create a surveillance network, with their Alexa-Devices, that communicate over radio waves ( do not need even internet ) and are about to cover huge regions, ever-growing ( also referred to it as the beginning of SkyNet, which is not that far off … ) and and …
That may work for some, but what about when they word it in the opposite? When you check the box it stops them from doing it, and if you don t check the box that gives them the permission.
Since they are not open source, no one can see how the code really work in the background. When we make a request to they’re server, I don’t see what’s stopping them from collecting information and selling them.
I don’t even see how we could set up a system that would make it possible to be sure whether a person said yes or no. Or with methods that i wouldn’t like for sure.
So for me its about trust. Did i trust them ? Hell no.
Also, they never say directly that they will sell our data. Yahoo do. I find this really spooky.
They tried that here sort of in the states. There was so many of us that basically just said that we weren’t going to, they didn’t really have the follow thru. So after realizing that they would lose so many, most wouldn’t do it. A few companies did do it, with not very good outcomes.
I’m sure glad I survived that nonsense, and it finally went away.
I think Ghostery has a toggle that automatically denies these things