Yahoo tracking you around the net

Yahoo is at it again

[theweblady]

this was just forwarded to me- its true-

theweblady
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From the Inland Empire Society for Technical Communication newsgroup:
Hope you find this helpful!

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>I found out about another Yahoo ploy to track our web habits and Yahoo
>has already placed a "web beacon" on our computer for those of us who
>are
>signed up with Yahoo. Yahoo is using the web beacon to track you
around
>the net & see what you are doing.
>
>If you want to opt out of this new marketing ploy by Yahoo, click on
the
>following link
[privacy.yahoo.com...]
><http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html>
>
>About halfway down the page, on the right side and in bold, you'll
find
>"Outside the Yahoo! Network." There's a tiny little link that lets you
>opt-out of their electronic snooping.
>
>It says, "Please click here to opt-out."

[JamesR]

wow, nice catch. Any idea how long they have been tracking? I hope this gets to the major news organizations.

[theweblady]

thanks- my guess is it was put into place when all the yahoogroups were down over St. Patricks weekend when they did all that other funny business with the marketing/spam stuff- its funny, one of the other lists that i forwarded it to doesnt think its a big deal :-)
i do, though-

[EliteWeb]

I opt'd out! :) hah why do we have to opt out neways, i never opt'd in!

[theweblady]

you know, it seems the more you dig around in the yahoo site, the more of this kind of stuff you find- i wonder how many suprises are there that we havent found yet?

[satanclaus]

Definitely with you on that one there theweblady. This little suprise was quite disturbing to say the least. I'm starting to feel like I need to get a law degree just to safely be able to sign up for or use anything involving termns of service on the net.

Wouldn't want to opt-in to giving away my first born child.

I seem to remember a company called Double Click get into a good bit of trouble a few
years back for something similar? Anyone remember something about that?