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[ST] another reason to avoid yahoo groups and stay where we are!!!



Got this from another list - anyone heard of this?  Another reason to stay
put (even though we already made that decision)

Subject: Yahoo Web Beacons

Just an FYI for all of you using Yahoo groups.

For your information ...

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

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.
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.

NOTE: 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.

Please pass this along to any other Yahoo groups you might be members
of.

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