If you are me you do not like the idea of this...
If you agree and use yahoo you should read on...
Yahoo is planting cookies to monitor your activity.
Computer specific. Continuous even when not logged on
to Yahoo. Here's how to OPT OUT.
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From Norm Berns, moderator for the Budgeting Group
Yahoo is Tracking Group Members
If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - including this one
- be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to
track every Yahoo Group user. It's similar to
cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and
every group you visit, even when you're not connected
to Yahoo.
Look at their updated privacy statement at
<
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." On the page that
opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo
Network."
In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out"
link that will let you
"opt-out" of their snooping. Be careful! NOT to click
on the next button
shown. It is an "Opt Back In" button that, if clicked,
will UNDO the
opt-out.
Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your
ability to opt-out of
it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific.
That means you will have
to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use.
2006-07-20
16:07:57
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