[ARRL-OK] FW: [OKtraders] Yahoo tracking is too much!

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

My suggestion is that you print this message out first, then
have it to use as a guide to do the "opt-out" procedures to
reduce the amount of spying on you that membership in any one
or more of the groups hosted at Yahoo is doing.
 
"Big Brother" is   NOT   just the arms of government!!!
 
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City, OK
 
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Attention, Group this has recently come up, and personally I wouldadvise all members to follow the link, and opt out as suggested.Whether you do or not is entirely upto you of course.... I have :-). See Below------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -Yahoo is Tracking Group MembersIf you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now using"Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user. It's similar tocookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group youvisit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo. Look at their updatedprivacy statement at:
 
(http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html)
 
About half-way down the page, in the section on *cookies*, you willsee a link that says *WEB BEACONS*. Click on the phrase "Web Beacons." On the page that opens, on the leftfind a box entitled "Opt-Out."In that section find "opt-out of interest-matched advertising" linkthat will let you "opt-out" of their snooping. Click it and then clickthe opt-out button on the next page.Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your ability toopt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific. Thatmeans you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use.Please forward this to your other groups. You might complain, too, butI'm not sure if anyone is listening. I remember when they signed allusers up to get spam and we had to opt out of that a few years ago.Related article:
(http://antivirus.about.com/od/spywareandadware/a/yahoobugs.htm)
 
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