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I've been waiting for Yahoo to finally die for a decade now.
by eric__cartman 5y ago
I've been waiting for Yahoo to finally die for a decade now.
- Tenoke 5y agoI haven't heard of anyone using yahoo for anything except to check ticker prices in years.
- Workaccount2 5y agoMy "junk" e-mail address is a yahoo address. I'd actually be a little sad to see it go, I have almost 20 years of random e-mails in there.
- Tenoke 5y agoAh, that's actually a significant loss. It's quite useful to be able to search for when you signed up for X or Y years ago. Most of the time you don't need it but when you do it's really valuable - e.g. I recently recovered some tiny at the time sums of crypto that were worth a few thousands now that way.
- Workaccount2 5y agoYeah recently I had to replace the HID bulbs in my motorcycle. The Amazon ones were junk so I wanted the same ones I originally bought 11 years ago. Sure enough there was the email from 2010 and the company still had the same bulbs.
- infinityplus1 5y agoJust import all emails from Yahoo to Gmail/Outlook. They provide importers.
- Taylor_OD 5y agoA lot of people use it for fantasy sports because... I'm not sure why but they do. Also its impossible to set up email forwarding with them so I have a very old email address I keep active.
- syntheticnature 5y agoBack when I was working with a bunch of fantasy football fanatics, they considered Yahoo the second-best site for doing so. ESPN's site was considered better, but those running leagues with less tech-inclined folks knew more people had Yahoo accounts already.
- infinityplus1 5y agoThey have disabled email forwarding in free accounts. https://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-mail-discontinues-automatic-email-forwarding-for-free-users/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-mail-discontinues-automa...
- Taylor_OD 5y agoYup. And if you delete your account someone else can sign up for that account name and start getting your email.