RE: [Maptitude] Yahoo Groups or is it Yahoo Snoops

[Hast, Chuck]

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 01:30 PM To: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Maptitude] Yahoo Groups or is it Yahoo Snoops It may matter to some...... 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 <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/beacons/details.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. Feel free to forward this to other groups. Passed on to me     Perhaps it is time to move elsewhere. I hope this is not the tendency of other sites.   I wonder how the google stuff works in that sense?   Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.