Yahoo: Threat or Menace?

[oakenguy]

I got this e-mail today about a standard Yahoo practice:

"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.

Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html

About half-way down the page, in the section "Outside the Yahoo!
Network", you'll see a little "click here" link that will let
you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping. I strongly recommend
that you do this.

Once you have clicked that link, you are opted out. Notice
the "Success" message the top the next page. Be careful because on
that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will
*undo** the opt-out. Feel free to forward this to other groups. Of
course, if you don't mind Yahoo recording every website and every
group you visit you should ignore this message."


Now the obvious follow-up question--what other websites are doing this and not giving us the option to opt-out?