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Old February 7th 04, 04:56 AM
MartyP
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Default OT - WARNING - Yahoo Groups

Well I have to ask why do you go there to read the groups? Don't you have
them send you the plain text format to your email address?

Martin Poles

"WayneH" wrote in message
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On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 02:08:03 GMT, Richard DeLuca
wrote:

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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.

Have a look at their updated privacy statement at:
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 blue-colored, "click here" link that
will let you "opt out" of this new feature.

Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. Notice the
"Success" message at the top the next page. Be careful here...,
because on that page, there's a "Cancel Opt-out" button, just
below it, that if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. Feel free
to forward this to other groups.


A follow-up to this - You must have cookies enabled for the opt-out
function to work. Also, unless you want to re-do the opt-out
procedure each time you go online, you must not delete the Yahoo
cookie. Yahoo has become a bit of a PITA.

Wayne Hoffman
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