[Chat] yahoo and privacy

[Christine Gray]

A friend sent me this:

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/us/pixels/details.html
<http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html>

About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo! Network",
you'll see a little "click here" link that will let you "opt-out" of their
new
method of snooping. I strongly recommend that you do this.

Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. Notice the "Success"
message the top the next page. You will have to do this with each browser
you
use, because it does not opt the user out, only the browser.

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 other groups.

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