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Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network
See hir post for more at http://maewyn.dreamwidth.org/1137604.html, but here's the meat (pasted from the article):
Personally, some of it is not working for me; attempting to save preferences (such as unchecking "share my updates", not that I actually send out any updates on Yahoo or use it for anything other than a spamtrap address and subscribing to Yahoo groups) often nets me the oh-so-helpful error message "something seems to be wrong". I am also annoyed to be totally at a loss in their new system as to where to change the details of my "alias" profile (you can have multiple profiles and choose which is visible to what groups) and indeed the main profile I'm working on doesn't seem to be equivalent to what I used to think of as the main one which was identified with the Yahoo id. *frustrated*
maewyn:Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network
See hir post for more at http://maewyn.dreamwidth.org/1137604.html, but here's the meat (pasted from the article):
To opt-out of the new program, go to http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/updates/ and uncheck the box next to Share My Updates. In addition, to opt out of sharing authorized by your friends, you need to go to http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/permissions, and uncheck "Allow my connections to share my information labeled 'My Connections' with third-party applications." While on this page, you should review your settings, and adjust the privacy levels as appropriate. This page also allows [you] to hide your profile entirely.
To control your privacy on the newly introduced Yahoo! Pulse, go to http://pulse.yahoo.com/y/settings and click on "Manage privacy settings." A pop-up window will appear, with a list of checkboxes. Here you can opt out of sharing a variety of information, and choose to hide your profile. To maximize privacy, everything should be deselected, except the last option "Hide my profile." [My strikeout. Note: To maximize privacy, you probably should check "Hide my profile", so that not even your friends can find you. If you want your profile to stay visible (like it has been for the last 10 years or so) but you still want to opt out of everything, none of the boxes should be checked.]
Next, select the link "my updates" from the first line of text in the pop-up. This will bring you to the Updates page, where you can uncheck "Share my updates." If you have previously followed our opt-out instructions, this should already be unchecked.
Note: Yahoo! is doing a slow rollout. The link to http://pulse.yahoo.com/y/settings may not work for you yet. If that is the case, use the old instructions for now.
Personally, some of it is not working for me; attempting to save preferences (such as unchecking "share my updates", not that I actually send out any updates on Yahoo or use it for anything other than a spamtrap address and subscribing to Yahoo groups) often nets me the oh-so-helpful error message "something seems to be wrong". I am also annoyed to be totally at a loss in their new system as to where to change the details of my "alias" profile (you can have multiple profiles and choose which is visible to what groups) and indeed the main profile I'm working on doesn't seem to be equivalent to what I used to think of as the main one which was identified with the Yahoo id. *frustrated*
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