Do you Yahoo? Do you wonder why you keep getting so many
email advertisements?
Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track
Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you
are going - similar to cookies.
Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies
you will see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web
beacons. That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo
Network." In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link
that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.
Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out.
Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page.
Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that,
if clicked, will *undo** the opt-out.
Feel free to forward this to others. Yahoo is recording
every website and every group you visit.
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