You are being tracked - Urgent information for all Yahoo group members

[Arkansas Winger Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Arkansas Winger]

You are being tracked - Urgent information for all Yahoo group members:

If you belong to any yahoo Groups this is important...

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. They are 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 link that says web beacons. Click on the web beacons link which brings you to another page. Find the paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."In this section you'll see the link "click here to opt out" . This allows you to "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.

Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page.

Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo** the opt-out.

Dale

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Thanks Dale! I went and opted-out.

[Guest Close Quarterbore]

Now that is alarming...

They track everywhere you go... then they allow their "partners" use that informatin to market to you. They do not (can not) control how some of their partners use this information.

So, they know your e-mail (it's your userid @ yahoo.com) and they know what you do...


The link to "OPT OUT" is off this page:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/...s/details.html

Note, be careful as they sure are sneaky with that second "Cancel" so they can still sell your information!

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Thanks guys.....I have opted out!

Sheesh, I wonder who else is doing the same thing.....

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

Sheesh, I wonder who else is doing the same thing.....

You read my mind. The net is a beautiful thing, but it sure has thorns...

[Luanne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Luanne]

Thanks for the warning/reminder.

[iceeu2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close iceeu2]

Thanks for the heads up on this.

[thv13 Member Find all posts View Profile Close thv13]

Thank you for sharing and allowing us the option to opt out..Which I Did ..Tom

[Carol C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Carol C]

Yikes, I have 6 yahoo email addies and "own" or belong to at least a dozen groups! I'd better get crackin! Thanks for posting this news!

[LynnW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LynnW]

Thanks for the notice I opted out.

Lynn

[Linda VH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Linda VH]

Thank you, I opted out as well. Linda

[Guest Close Quarterbore]

Just a warning... I am not really sure that this is based on a yahoo account or if it works off your computer itself!

You may need to do this on each computer as every computer has it's own unique cookie!

If you computer has antispyware software that looks at cookies, it will likely detect this.. the problem is you can't block all cookies as the cookie is what lets people in a website like this...

[SOS8260456 Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close SOS8260456]

Thanks for the heads up. I went and opted out.

Lisa

[4ARedOctober Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close 4ARedOctober]

Thanks for the heads up.

There is also another place to opt out of the tracking cookies....click on opt-out link.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/privacy/us/ysmt.html

......when you are successful you will get this message....problem is when you use spyware to clean these cookies out it may clear out the opt out cookie and then when you log in again you are automatically opted back in. wow these chumps are sneaky.



Opt-Out Successful
You have successfully opted out from allowing Overture Performance Marketing to use cookies to track visitor behavior on our advertisers' Web sites. This will take effect immediately and within the next 24 hours connections to our data collection servers will stop completely. Overture Performance Marketing will no longer collect any information on your visit to any of our client's Web sites as long as you have cookies enabled. Please be advised that Overture Performance Marketing will set an opt-out cookie that will store your preference to stop tracking your visits. If this cookie is cleared or removed, Overture Performance Marketing will start tracking your visitor behavior on our advertisers' Web sites again. Setting this cookie should not affect your user experience while browsing these Web sites. If you have any further questions, please contact us at privacy@overture.com.

[Jaybee Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jaybee]

We opted out, too. Thanks so much, Dale, for this information. Jean