Privacy warning for Yahoo users...

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JansenClone
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Something to think about for anyone signed up to the rarities groups on yahoo, or anyone who uses yahoo at all. I quote:

In case you are interested in protecting your online privacy: 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":

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/bea ... tails.html

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.

:eek: or is it :x ?
I am a Leeds United fan because I was very naughty in a previous life.
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lucretia
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Nah ... been at this debate on another forum.
one day at a time
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pikkrong
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Damn, I'm a member of some yahoo groups and I use every day a yahoo e-mail address - should I opt-out once or again and again? :urff:
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