• Yahoo - where did it all go wrong?
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Im probably one of the few that uses Yahoo mail.
[QUOTE=Greendead;49476474]Im probably one of the few that uses Yahoo mail.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry for your loss.
[QUOTE=Greendead;49476474]Im probably one of the few that uses Yahoo mail.[/QUOTE] Does getting banned from one of the Yahoo services still also mean you get banned from accessing your mail? This happened to someone I knew of a long time ago and customer services refused to help him.
Yahoo failed because it traded user-friendliness for appeal. Rather than [I]being[/I] user-friendly, it just wanted to [I]look[/I] user-friendly, meaning adopting to it was difficult. Google came to power because their website's as simple as it can be, literally a search box and a button. Then got even more power when they started crossing user details with search results so they could give you exactly what you wanted on page 1.
Changing all the emails linked to it when it closes is going to be annoying, I liked a lot the Disposable addresses feature.
[QUOTE=Greendead;49476474]Im probably one of the few that uses Yahoo mail.[/QUOTE] Still kicking it with my @yahoo.com.tr :v:
I still have a bullshit email address on Yahoo that I keep as an emergency backup. I check it once a year to make sure it's still there. It's also been subscribed to a cyber security newsletter since like '99.
My main yahoo account got unrevocably deleted way back. Shortly before, their terrible spam filter became worse and I got thousands of spam emails a day and instead of resolving it they silently deleted the account. Hip hip, yahoo.
Over the course of the 20 years or so they've been around. Their failure is widely seen throughout many websites during the dot.com boom and subsequent burst. Yahoo lost out when google provided better services, a better algorithm, and for some damn reason google just had a lot more appeal than Yahoo.
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