Yahoo tracks all of its users everywhere on the web and the way to
opt-out is detailed below. If you have a Yahoo e-mail account or
belong to one of Yahoo's many Yahoo groups, this probably applies to
you. Yahoo has probably been tracking everything you do online.
Follow the instructions precisely to opt out of this. Notice the
important part at the very end. "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.
Yahoo is recording every web site 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 phrase web beacons.
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html 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. 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. So don't reflexively click that button, or you
will undo the opt- out ! Feel free to forward this to other groups."