Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:34:08 -0500 From: madodel at ptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] OT: Caution for yahooGroups users - "Web Beacons" From: Jerry Garren A If you belong to any YAHOO GROUPS or use Yahoo in any other ways, you may want to opt out of this......... 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: 1 Go to http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy 2 In the column on the left side, under the title of "Special Topics," click "cookies". 3 At the bottom of this new page you will see a link that says "Click here." Click that. 4 On that new page click the phrase "web beacon". That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network." 5 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. -- Warpstock 2005 - Where/When? Stay tuned to http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe 2005 - Where/When? Stay tuned to http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org