[BCVHFA] Yahoo Web Beacons

[K8CM]

The following forwarded from the Icom mail list.  The following for your 
information and use as you choose.

73  <>  Carl

>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, 
>though, 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.