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The Director of the CIA was still using an AOL account, which is worse than Yahoo, until recently. Let that sink in. A lot of normal people may still be using

• jhayward 10y ago
  > an AOL account, which is worse than Yahoo Worse in what material way? You might be surprised to know that AOL was doing things like encrypting even intra-datacenter links as early as 2006. While they would probably not have resisted such an order they would have at least implemented it competently.
• Zigurd 10y ago
  Recently I was interested in a position with a large and reputed to be IT-savvy company. Their online application gave applicants the choice of "fill out tiresome form with data they already have" or "log in with Yahoo." I thought there MUST be some other choice I missed. I reread the page. searched the page. Refreshed the page. Nope. Just Yahoo. WTF? The 90's called, etc... And, when I did a search for similar application forms, I found out it was hardly an outlier. I started to get interested: More searching uncovered a significant percentage, maybe 10-15% overall, of major technology employers use a job application system that only accept Yahoo identities. It must be some quirk of job application portal vendors. But there it is. Anyone applying to more than one position will find several of these. And since you can't re-use the manually entered identity information across companies, the incentives to use a Yahoo identity are pretty strong. Time-to-payback is the second one you encounter.