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The
Protest Navbar Stacks
I
promised myself that there would be NO Navbars on my Site.
I have
broken that promise. There now ARE Navbars on this page.
The
purpose of this page is to show how there is an increasing number of Rings
which indicate a clear protest against the Navbar, against the take-over
of webring.org by Yahoo!, against needing a Yahoo! ID for joining or owning
a Ring, and against the appalling way in which the original Owners of these
Rings, the RingMasters, were ignored by Yahoo, and excluded in the take-over.
There
now also is a growing number of Protest Rings, created as a result of how
Ringmasters were treated at Yahoo! 'WebRingNews', the 'official' discussion
Club of Yahoo!Webring. These Rings are also part of this Navbar Stack.
It
is very regrettable that many Ringmasters felt irate, not just wtih the
changes to Web Rings, but also with the events which took place at WebRing
News, the "official" Yahoo!WebRing Club. Thousands of posts were deleted,
and many, many Ringmasters were banned. Banned for speaking out, banned
for getting angry. These events may well have contribuited considerably
to the giant exodus of Web Rings from Yahoo!WebRing ot other Web Ring servers.
The events at WebRing News are described on Page Four, "The Trouble with
WebRing News. Many Ringmasters made statements which are reprinted on that
page.
So
what's all wrong with these Navbars? Here's what I think:
1.
The Yahoo! servers, which serve up the Navbars, have been shown to be slower
than my own free Web Site server most of the time.
2.
On several occasions the Yahoo! servers have been TOTALLY out of action
since September 5, 2000, the day that Yahoo!WebRing took over from WebRing.org.
When that happens, NOBODY sees a Navbar belonging to ANY Ring on their
Site, and ALL WebRing traffic stops.
3.
Yahoo! servers which look after the "links", so that when you click on
"Next" or "Prev" to arrive at the next Site in a Ring, have been down entirely
as well.
4.
I live in Australia. When we surf the Net, America usually is asleep. It
is during those hours, that the Yahoo! servers are usually down.
5.
Before Yahoo! took over, Ringmasters could make ANY image, and any number
of images, to go with a WebRing control set. With the Yahoo!WebRing system,
you are allowed just ONE image, a 50 x 50 pixel image.
Since
that is the case, I don't feel it is "my" Ring anymore.
6.
On any WebRing I create I want to include a "HOME" link. It informs people
why you can or cannot join the Ring, ans I can tell as much as I like about
the Ring. A Ring is MY Club. A Yahoo!WebRing Ring does not allow a HOME
link. It seems that they are 'Property of Yahoo!WebRing', and no longer
my property.
7.
It has been demonstrated already that the Yahoo! Navbar is an easy vehicle
for cookies and bugs, because the images are served from ANYWHERE, and
by ANYBODY. The Navbar "Banned by webringnews Ring" (second from the top)
was created as a demonstration that cookies can be served; it carries to
your computer a demonstration cookie by www.privacy.du.edu. On the page
"About Cookies" you can view two other cookies I have been able to locate
as coming in with the Navbars.
image
courtesy of Holidays4Fun
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