And who uses Yahoo? .. for Anything? Steve wrote:
> I belong to Ring of Fire, a computer security mailing list. > This bone chiller, came in my email inbox this morning. > Figured I'ld spread the love. > > <begin> > 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 > > A little over half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you > will see a link that says "web beacons". Click on it to be taken to > this page: > > - http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html > > That will bring you to the Web Beacons page. Look in the section > "Outside the Yahoo! Network" (2nd one down). The last sentence in the > last "bulleted" paragraph reads "Please click here to opt-out." - > click where indicated to be brought to this page: > > - http://pclick.yahoo.com/p?optout > > Once you have clicked that link (or visited the link above), you are > exempted. (Notice the "Success" message at the top of the page.) Be > careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, > if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. How thoughtful of them to include > such an easy way to get back in, yet making getting out a 4 step > process... > > Feel free to forward this to other groups. > </end> > > ..-----------------------------------. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `-----------------------------------' .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
