[ARC5] Yahoo Web Beacons

[D C (Mac) Macdonald]

Purloined from another list.

Mac, K2GKK in Oklahoma City


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TAKE WARNING

 
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 linkthat 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 link that will let you
"prevent" their new method of snooping.

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.

Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next screen.
Be careful, because on that page there is a "Cancel"
button that, if clicked, will *undo* your decision.  This
is pretty sneaky.

I've been advised that you have to go through this on each
computer you use and each browser you use on each computer.