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500m users is different than 500m active users, plus I wonder how many people use yahoo for fantasy sports and nothing else
by noer 10y ago
500m users is different than 500m active users, plus I wonder how many people use yahoo for fantasy sports and nothing else
- whoopdedo 10y agoYahoo hosts the email for many ISPs, including AT&T.
- killbrad 10y agoWait, Yahoo hosts all of AT&T subscribers' email, or there is some cross-account link? Important difference.
- bruceboughton 10y agoYahoo hosts all mail for BT Internet in the UK (the former national telecom, now one of top 3 ISPs)
- prirun 10y agoThe good news about this breach is that it will greatly increase their "active user" count because of password reset logins. That looks good for the buyout deal. Twitter did this to me right after their last not-so-great quarterly report came out: sent an email saying they have noticed "suspicious activity on my Twitter account and have suspended it. Click this link to reset your password." Which is kinda funny because I never posted one thing to my Twitter account. So locking it for me was the next best thing to deleting it. When I got the LinkedIn breach email, I too just deleted my account there. Wasn't worth the fretting about security problems.