Yahoo Web Beacons

If you are like me, you are also bothered by programs that come attached with spyware or malware underneath the "real" programs and install themselves and report data behind your back.

As such we use a lot of antispyware programs, firewalls, and anti-viruses as our arsenals since studies have shown that no single tool has been ever shown to rid us of all of these F'n buggers.

It might benefit you to know that Yahoo itself has their own way of tracking statistics for their "partners". It basically keeps track of the sites you visit to improve their "advertisment guiding" function. Although this is declared in their privacy clauses, this is enabled by default and the clauses themselves are deeply burried underneath a lot of mumbo jumbo that not a lot of us will care to actually read.

To some, this maybe a benign issue, but to those who wish to be excluded from this, I offer you this information for a way out:

1. Go to the Yahoo Privacy page 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 under the "Outside the Yahoo! Network" title.

4. A page that says you have been out of the monitoring program will load. Close the window and DO NOT click the "Cancel Opt-out" button, otherwise your action will be cancelled!

5. You're done... Happy anonymous surfing!