After Turnip spoke out about yahoo being a pest and others have done it too?

Yahoo has unfortunately become the victim of it's own greed, at the cost of it's patrons' trust. Much like the juggernaut Google.

Both services submissively bowed to advertising conglomerates, by adopting 'phorm' inspired "targeted advertising"; a 'data siphon' method that directs your clickstream to 3rd party advertisers, and builds a portfolio on your surf habits; in order to increase revenue...in essence spyware that is kept on dedicated computers you have little or no control over.

This may make your computer freak out, and may in fact do many other un-requested actions, as admitted by Yahoo!.

Google itself has spyware.

From their Privacy Center page

(http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html)

"No personally identifiable information – We don’t collect or serve ads based on personal information without your permission."

Notice the last 3 words...yet you are by default, "Opted In"!!

And Gmail, once perceived to be 'safe', actually scans all your mail & then selects advertising based on the content. It's "for your own good...."

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_privacy.htm...

"Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie on our Google content network ..."

These guys are the used car salesman of the internet, very 'slippery' characters burying their methods, details & opt out choices with layer after layer, page after page of non-sense & merry-go-round tactics plus non-functioning links. You know: the usual corporate greed tactics.

All I can say is keep trying & get as many of these tracking portfolios killed as you can.

Yahoo! calls their invasion of privacy "Matched advertising", and it stems from the 'Network Advertising Initiative' (NAI), a conglomerate of advertising kingpins and requires "Opt Out" to defray the advertising tsunami from Yahoo's partners in this server based spyware/adware (and to stop them from creating a 'profile' of you).

"Opt out" sign in pages;

Yahoo here: http://info.yahoo.com/relevantads/

Google here: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

NAI garbage here: http://networkadvertising.org/managing/o...

DoubleClick here: http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving....

(List of 64 advertisers they conspire with are listed here: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/thirdpartie...

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Yahoo has gone insane.

**ASTONISHIING DEVELOPMENT**

Get this: the 'new' Yahoo by default, allows your Yahoo! contacts computers, to send to whatever 3rd party software they have on THEIR computer, information about you! Can you believe that!!?

This is something you must end ASAP.

Look in your mail account settings (ya, it's buried very conveniently) and uncheck this box!

Go to your Yahoo! Mail: near the "Welcome (your name)", tick the 'Profile' link; next page, upper right corner, tick 'Settings'; next page, near the bottom is the box to uncheck.

This is spying, pure and simple.

So the deterioration of trust with Yahoo! snowballs...it's pathetic.