I thought this might be of interest to those of you that use yahoo mail. I received it from one of my TLC groups and thought it worth sharing.
Yahoo is now using something called 'Web Beacons' to track Yahoo Group users around the internet and see what you're doing and where you are going--similar to cookies. Check their privacy statement at
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, then 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 you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.