Yahoo sharing "updates"...

[kengr]

on your Yahoo related stuff (posts to yahoo groups, use of some apps, etc) to anyone who puts your address un their yahoo address book!!!

More details and links to opt-out here:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/opt-out-required-prevent-your-yahoo-mail-contacts


ETA: The links given *all* took me to the sign-in screen for Yahoo Pulse. And I had to edit the URL *by hand* to get to the settings screen.

On top of that, I found that even though I'd opted out of the earlier updates thing, I'd been opted back in when they went to this "Pulse" thing.

Yahoo has a history of deciding that you really didn't mean to opt out of something whenever they "upgrade". Grrr.

We need a law requiring that mailing lists and other thing (like this nonsense) must be *opt-in*.

Yes, it'd screw with a lot of people's business models. Tough. Business models that require Opt-out are generally not in the public interest anyway.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Sheesh. Thanks for the heads-up. Mind if I signal-boost?

[kengr]

Go for it. I got it from the EFF newsletter. :-)

ps. I edited and expanded the post.

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I fixed all of ours, and posted to Facebook (which it seems Yahell is trying to emulate, for better or worse).