Yahoo slow down

I recently experienced a slow down in my yahoo mail preview pane. It would take up to 5 seconds to display a message.  That’s not acceptable.  I gave thought to moving to gmail as my primary email account.

Then I found this:

Yahoo: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/details.html

I noticed that when the preview pane was loading Yahoo was pinging a list of URLs.  I had nothing to do with the message I was trying to view.  I opted out of the “program” and sped up my yahoo experience.