[guispeak] Fw: how to turn off yahoo tracking...

  • From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@freelists.org>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:39:23 -0500

Hi all -- thought you'd be interested in this one, for those on 
yahoogroups...
--le
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>> 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:
>>
>> Go here:
>>
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
>>

>>
>> In the column on the left side, under the title of "Special Topics",
>> click
>> "cookies".
>>
>> At the bottom of this new page you will see a link that says "Click
>> here."
>> Click that.
>>
>> On that new page click the phrase "web beacon". 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. Click
> it.
>>
>> Then STOP. What would normally be a confirmation button on the next page
>> will opt you back in.

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