Profound Passions of Persephone

1.25.2004

This info came through one of my groups........VERY worth looking into!


Hello,

If you are at all concerned with people knowing where you go or what
you do on yahoo......check it out.

Yahoo can track us and see what kind of sites we are looking at!!

BUT, ALSO HOW TO OPT OUT OF IT!! Which I did, first thing!

Here's how....

"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.

Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html

About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo!
Network", you'll see a little "click here" link that will let you
"opt-out" of their new method of snooping. I strongly recommend
that you do this.

Once you have clicked that li! nk, you are opted out. Notice
the "Success" message the top 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.
Of course, if you don't mind Yahoo recording every website and
every group you visit you should ignore this message.

|