As we all know, Yahoo! upgraded its features and the capacities of
the mail accounts have grown to 250 MB. That's good for sure, 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.
(its an open claim by yahoo sayin "We collect personal data") 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.

Yahoo! has hidden this option of opting out of this tracking crap
deep inside somewhere. Lets find that out...

1. Go to the address

h**p://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.