OT, But Important: Yahoo is Prying and Sharing Again! (Cross Group Posting)

[guysmalley]

thanks

guy smalley

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Pam" wrote:
>
> I received this important notification from another group. Please read
> and decide for yourself what you'd like to do!
>
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> If you belong to any yahoo Groups this is important:
>
> Yahoo is now using "Web beacons" to track Yahoo Group users around the
> Net. Web beacons are similar to cookies -- Yahoo gets a record of what
> you're doing and where you're going. Yahoo is recording every Website
> and every Yahoo Group you visit.
>
> Take a look at the *updated* Yahoo privacy statement:
> http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
>
> About halfway 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 find the phrase "click here to opt-out." The "click
> here" part is a link that will let you opt out of Yahoo's newest
> method of snooping.
>
> Once you have clicked on that link, you are exempted. Or so Yahoo says.
>
> Notice what's on the next page that comes up. On that page there is a
> "Cancel Opt-out" button. If you click on that button you will **undo**
> the opt-out that you just did. Clicking on the "Cancel Opt-Out" button
> gives back to Yahoo your permission to pry into surfing done with your
> computer, and to share with others the information it finds out.
>
> Feel free to forward this to other groups.
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>
> Pam T.
> 03 Bluebird Wanderlodge
>