Re: Opt Out of Yahoo's following with cookies or beacons

[Guest guest]

Thanks Joe!

I'm now a member of the opt out club.

Hugs

Jo

[Guest guest]

Thanks Joe

Ed in Vegas

Opt Out of Yahoo's following with

cookies or " beacons "

Hi all. I found this on another group I'm on and thought some of you

might be interested. I have done it for myself.

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A friend in another Yahoo group sent this and I thought some folks

here might appreciate the heads up:

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. 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 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 exempted.

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 other groups.

[Guest guest]

Joe,

Thanks for this information. I got something the other day from yahoo on my

buddy list saying that they were having a new " yahoo " where I could track my

buddies and see where they are at all times and who they are talking with. And

I thought to myself " ok, that would be a nice way to " spy " on someone, however,

won't they know where I am at all times? " I " opted out " and I hope that my

privacy stays where it should.

--

**Wake me up from the nothing

that I've become**

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Hi all. I found this on another group I'm on and thought some of you might be

interested. I have done it for myself.

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A friend in another Yahoo group sent this and I thought some folks

here might appreciate the heads up:

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. 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 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 exempted.

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 other groups.