[CS-FSLUG] FYI

[Don Parris]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:06:23 -0500
"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:

> You may want to pass this along to those who may have Yahoo accounts
> and/or are on Yahoo elists.
> 
> Fred
> __________________________
> 
> Just for the group, info about yahoo....
> Pass it along.
> 
> If you belong to any YAHOO GROUPS or use Yahoo in any other ways, you may
> want to opt out of this.........
> 
> 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. If you would like to opt out of their tracking system, here's how
> to do it:
> 
> 
> 1 Go to http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy In the column on the left side,
> under the title of "Special Topics," click "cookies".
> 2 At the bottom of this new page you will see a link that says "Click
> here." Click that.
> 3 On that new page click the phrase "web beacon". That will bring you to a
> paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."
> 4 In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link.Click
> it.
> 
> Then STOP. What would normally be a confirmation button on the next page
> will opt you back in.
> 
> You might pass it on to other Yahoo groups you're a member of.
> 
> -- 
> The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped
> in their warehouse..."
> 
> _______________________________________________

Thanks Fred.  I am a Yahoo user.  Not that I care about what they see, but I
really feel like this was kind of sneaky on their part - I do not recall
them sending me any information about this addition to their service. (I
have always used Yahoo.)

Don

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