[s-cars] yahoo email info

[Joe Pizzimenti]

Screw yahoo, go gmail.

I got 5 invites left, who wants one?

On 5/17/05, chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Found this info thought I should share it.
> 
> As you all may know, Yahoo! upgraded its features and the capacities of
> the mail accounts have grown to 250 MB. That's cool but the
> "monitoring" methods that we all have been far too familiar with in the
> last couple of years have been renewed with this move also.
> 
> Yahoo! is now keeping track of which sites its members that are getting
> into groups or using Yahoo! services are visiting and storing this data
> with a method called "Web Beacons".
> 
> The aim is to give these statistics to the partner companies arranged
> by agreement and to improve the "advertisement guiding" function.
> 
> Those who are bothered by this and do not want to be kept track of have
> still a choice. Yahoo! has hidden this option way deep inside somewhere
> but I'm declaring it here in case there are people who want it anyway:
> 1. Go to the address
> 
> //http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
> 
> and click the "Cookies" link under the "Special Topics" column.
> 2. Click the "Web Beacons" link under the "Reference Links" Column.
> 3. On this page, click the "click here to opt out" link toward the end
> of the third paragraph in the middle page under the "Outside the Yahoo!
> Network" title.
> 4. After a while, a page that says you have been out of the monitoring
> program will load. Without doing anything, close that page or continue
> your usual surfing by typing another address in the address bar. (Do
> NOT click the "Cancel Opt-out" button, your action will be cancelled!)
> 5. You're done! Now Yahoo! will not record what you're doing during surfing.
> 
> AUDI - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.
> 
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