PLEASE READ...If you belong to.any yahoo Groups

[Peter Ratner]

PLEASE READ....any yahoo Groups

If you belong to any yahoo Groups this is important...


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:

1. http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

.

[garrettwc]

Thanks for the tip, JD. Never access the groups directly, just get the emails from them. But better safe than sorry.

[K Frame]

Those miserable bastards.

[Sindawe]

Ick.  But I've not been in any Yahoo groups for several years.

[esheato]

Thanks.

[Paddy]

Adaware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/  (free) should get rid of tracking cookies.  Make it a regular habit to empy the temporary internet files cache and run disk cleanup, too.

[Harold Tuttle]

this would only work if you accessed the group via the web front end

setting your group mail to text only should shed any html beacons