Yahoo Web Beacons

[gaddeswarup]

I received the following message from a friend today:
"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 linkthat says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons. That will bring youto 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. Notice the "Success"message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page therei s a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo*! * the opt-out. Feel free to forward this to other groups."