If you belong to ANY Yahoo! Groups - be aware that Yahoo! is now using “Web Beacons” to track every Yahoo! Group user. They’re similar to cookies, but allow Yahoo! to record every Web site and every group you visit, even when you’re not connected to Yahoo!.

Look at its updated privacy statement.

About halfway down the page, in the section on cookies, you will see a link that says WEB BEACONS.

Web beacon Yahoo group cookies privacy Big Brother tracking.

Click on the phrase "Web Beacons." On the page that opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo! Network."

In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out" link that will let you "opt-out" of its snooping. Be careful NOT to click on the next button shown. It is an "Opt Back In" button that, if clicked, will UNDO the opt-out.

Note that Yahoo!'s invasion of your privacy - and your ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific. That means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use. :smoke

What if you use a proxy?.

I'm no expert on these things but from what I can gather the proxy would have to be an anonimous one that gives out zero details, other proxies might transmit your computer name eg OEM ???????????? which could be traced to your machine.

Best to be safe and "opt out"

I know this is off topic but i would'nt mind if a few of the pc xperts came in on this thread, but screw yahoo anyway.

Hmm thats not cool. How can they do that. and what do they do with that information once they have it, scary