[oxfordgamers] Re: Another Yahoo! Anti-privacy "feature"

The 'click here' gives you the ability to opt-out of being tracked via Web
Beacons.

A web beacon is hidden inside html in a mail message.  For example, if you
receive an e-mail with html in it, some of that html can be specifically
keyed such that when the image or text is retrieved from the sender's web
site, it contains a identifier of you, the individual.  This is a beacon to
the sender that the mail account must be active.

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