Posted: 5/23/2005 6:34:59 AM EDT
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This is worth looking into. I'm definately going to opt out. Red Dawg6 Yahoo 'Web Beacons' Spy On And Track Yahoo Users! Yahoo tracks all of its users everywhere on the web and the way to opt-out is detailed below. If you have a Yahoo e-mail account or belong to one of Yahoo'smany Yahoo groups, this probably applies to you. Yahoohas probably been tracking everything you do online. Follow the instructions precisely to opt out of this.Notice the important part at the very end. "Yahoo is now using something called 'Web Beacons' totrack Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are going similar tocookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy statement: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy About half-way down the page, in the section oncookies, you will see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons. http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outsidethe Yahoo Network." In this section you'll see a little "click here to optout" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. Notice the "Success" message on the top of the nextpage. Be careful because on that page there is a"Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will**undo** the opt-out. So don't reflexively click that button, or you will undo the opt-out ! Feel free toforward this to other groups. |
