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Thanks for your vigilance
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--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Scheidler" <xpandrew@p...>
wrote:
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: David Kirkdorffer <vze2ncsr@v...>
> >> To: <Loopers-Delight@l...>
> >> Date: 1/2/2005 1:07:15 PM
> >> Subject: OT: Yahoo Privacy
> >>
> >> someone just forwarded this to idm-l; might be pertinent for anyone
> here
> > who
> >> is part of a yahoogroup.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Hi folks,
> >>
> >> 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
> >> 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."