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Honestly it is pretty crazy how old Yahoo is and they are still hanging on.
by rapsey 6y ago
Honestly it is pretty crazy how old Yahoo is and they are still hanging on.
- mrweasel 6y agoBut they aren’t hanging on, Yahoo! is owned by Verizon. Why Verizon would buy a site like Yahoo is still a mystery to me, but they own a lot of other junk as well.
- 300bps 6y agoI think Verizon would buy Yahoo so they could further monetize their subscriber base. Buy Yahoo.com, make Yahoo.com the default home page of every customer. They do this in other ways - I'm a FIOS customer and I don't use their DNS because you will see ads anytime you mis-type a domain name. You can turn this off with their not-so-simple instructions that any Baby Boomer will be completely unable to do: https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/home-network/settings/opt-out-of-dns-assist https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/home-ne...
- jnwatson 6y agoYeah I still have yahoo.stanford.edu in an old bookmarks file.
- sushid 6y agoI would saying getting acquired by a PE firm is the opposite of "still hanging on." Verizon just let them flop around as their pond dried up. Now they're about to be eviscerated by professionals.