Yahoo and Web Beacons

Fri Dec 17 14:25:54 PST 2004

I've seen a few messages on a couple of Yahoo groups that I subscribe to 
talking about Web Beacons 
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html policies on 
Yahoo.

What is causing the furor I think is this snippet:
Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific 
user. Therefore you will have to opt-out separately from each computer or 
browser that you use.

So Yahoo is using a cookie to opt-out I assume, which means that if you 
clear your cookie cache, you'd have to opt out again.  Of course if you 
modify your browser settings so that you don't accept cookies (which 
causes hassles of it's own, but at least you know it's not tracking your 
activity without your knowledge), this should solve the problem, correct?

What are people's thoughts about this?

Jennifer