Stealth Settings aren’t perfect and your invisibility isn’t invincible. These days it’s easy enough to work out if a user is actually Online yet invisible either to many, or just to one person, so please be very aware that if you set your status to invisible chances are that if your friend is persistent enough they will be able to track down your true online status in minutes if they really want to, here’s how your friends are finding out your status is set to invisible….
Yahoo! has a feature that allows your online status (be that online or offline) to be available on Yahoo! services like your Yahoo! 360 page, Yahoo! Profiles, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Games etc.
If your status becomes available on Yahoo! Messenger and you then, or have already, enabled Stealth Settings to Appear Offline / Permanently Offline to one or more friends, or a group of your friends, then please be aware that the Stealth settings ONLY apply to people on your friends list within Yahoo! Messenger itself. Stealth settings have no impact whatsoever on your online status reflected on Yahoo! service pages like your profile page (or Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! 360 etc) and as such, those will reflect your true status not the status applied by your Stealth settings.
I’m hidding from one of my friends Jack, so I apply “Appear Offline” to his ID on my friends list, I now come online (available) and start chatting to other friends, they can all see that I am available but Jack will just see my “offline” status. Jack will continue to assume I am in fact “offline”… right up until she browses to any of the Yahoo! service pages, like my profile http://profiles.yahoo.com/my_id which will reflect my “Online” status. My Stealth settings are only applicable to Yahoo! Messenger, not Yahoo! services, so Peanut puts two and two together and comes up with the fact that I am online, just invisible to him… one highly ticked off friend….
If you want to prevent your status being reflected on Yahoo! pages then you can disable the online presence feature, from within Yahoo! Messenger click on Messenger > Preferences > Privacy (left hand column) then uncheck the box beside Allow Yahoo! web sites to show when I am online, click Apply, Click OK.
Now head to your profile ( http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile) login, click on Create/Edit Profiles (right hand column) and make sure that you select the box to hide your online status, make sure you click Finished Editing (button top and bottom right of the page), then just log out of your profile page.
Once complete, regardless of whether you are logged onto Yahoo! Messenger as available or invisible (to all or just select users), your online presence status will always show as unavailable on any Yahoo! services page.
If you find your online status indicator is a bit wonky e.g it wont reflect your true status, there is a “quirk” re the system, that being, if you log in to yahoo messenger as “invisible” your online status indicator may always show you as “offline” even if you later switch to “available” so if you experience any problems trying disabling invisible login and use “available”.
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Buzzu.info basically it allows users to check the “true” status of their friends… strange but true… and it works pretty much 99% of the time!
You can try Buzzu Yahoo Messenger Invisible Checker for you self and convice you about his awesome features.