I thought so too, a few years back. But like someone else posted it can be changed, and is pretty easy with no issues. I’m using my ISP given email address and plan on changing it again.
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Verizon Says All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Compromised in 2013 Attack
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I thought so too, a few years back. But like someone else posted it can be changed, and is pretty easy with no issues. I’m using my ISP given email address and plan on changing it again.
$186m roughly. Considered the least likeable CEO in the tech world and judging by this article, practically a criminal. She is certainly either a liar, incompetent or worse, both.
She has set young senior executives back years in reputation and credibility. For female executives, perhaps doubly so.
An utter disgrace.
I changed mine twice so far since I had an Apple ID. I just hate it that I can’t use my icloud email address. Just go on appleid.com and change your Apple ID from there.
Wait huh? But I thought all my purchases were tied to that original Apple ID? which dates back to many, many years. LOL
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Looks like a have some stuff to do when I get home. Thanks guys, I can finally delete that account.
Marissa Mayer walked away with something like $250 million dollars for her tenure at Yahoo. During this time she destroyed the culture of the company, promoted newly hired women to replace men who received high performance evaluations in the same roles (sued for it), saw to a reduction of 50% of the workforce, bought 53 companies for $2.7 billion dollars, went blind during 3 billion account hack and negotiated the sell off of the entire company to Verizon which lead to her $23 million bonus.
I can't wait for her to run for president. At least we'll know her yahoo mail will be compromised.
I can't wait for her to run for president. At least we'll know her yahoo mail will be compromised.
I think at this point it's clear that nothing on the Internet is private, and those trying to convince us that it is don't know what their talking about.
The Internet is a spy and a weapon. Use at your own risk.
The Internet is a spy and a weapon. Use at your own risk.
So there's a software program I bought in 2005 that I needed to update because of High Sierra. It's in esellerate. You need your e-mail and the order number. I tried all four of my present e-mails and they didn't work. Got in though with the developer, and he kindly looked it up. But he said, not unfairly, that he couldn't just hand it out, because he didn't know me from Adam. What to do? So I began to reconstruct all of the e-mail addresses I've had since 2005. I would dig out the memory, he'd say, "No." I must have been through 9 or 10 that I no longer used. No, no, no. Sorry. Sighing, I thought that I went through them all. Well, I'll pay for the upgrade, then. But I didn't, right away. Then, the next morning, I get something from Yahoo. "Somebody tried to break into your e-mail account in Germany this week. And then it gave me a link. I clicked the link, it seemed genuine. I went through and got to a page telling me that since I had been inactive for so long, it was game over. Okay. In the meantime, I saw the e-mail that dated back to 2002. A Yahoo account I had forgotten I had. So I sent the developer a note, he said yes, and ten minutes later, I was running the updated software. Thanks, Dave Narian of ShirtPocket! Thanks.... hackers who broke into my antiquated e-mail account?
Marissa Mayer single-handedly took a company that was once respected and brought it to the butt of jokes everywhere....she becomes CEO, makes everyone working from home now work at the office, turns her office in to a giant daycare, employs writers that don't have the fundamental basics of the concept of proofreading and grammar, turns nearly every Yahoo story into a link to other news site stories, plasters the front page with sponsored ads masquerading as stories, not to mention every other story headline is "broke the Internet" stories or trash stories on celebrities and things no one really gives a crap about.
Other than that, she did a great job as a CEO.
Other than that, she did a great job as a CEO.
What a shame that Wells-Fargo didn't buy Yahoo! and Equifax at obscene valuations.
This just in:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/equifax-irs-fraud-protection-contract-243419
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What the hell is Oath.com and who thought that was a good idea?
I have no idea why Koskinen is still in charge there.
I have no idea why Koskinen is still in charge there.
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I'm not that shocked. It seems a good number of folks used them as spam receptacle accounts or otherwise throwaway email accounts.
Seems similar to how AOL used to have so many millions of users... many were free users, while here, many just casually opened an account. How many are still in use is another matter entirely.
You may have a Yahoo account and not even know it. Yahoo provides email services to some of the largest companies in the world. If you have an email account with AT&T you have Yahoo email. it is entirely possible that your employer uses Yahoo email services and you are using Yahoo email even if your email address doesn’t have “Yahoo” in it anywhere.
It occurs to me that Yahoo was dead in the water long before Mayer took charge, the perfect example of a poisoned chalice. A lot of posts here seem to lay the blame squarely at her feet, but the job was only ever going to be the equivalent of bailing out the Titanic.
Would the tone be any different is she was a man? Who knows, but it's something to ponder.
Would the tone be any different is she was a man? Who knows, but it's something to ponder.
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When you change (not create a new one) the Apple ID all of your purchases follow. Remember before changing the apple is to sign out of iCloud on ALL devices.
Not only do they get hacked, but like half the Windows computers I see less savvy people using are infected with at least one Yahoo! toolbar. Absolute scum company.
I just dropped my Outlook account as I stopped receiving emails. Yahoo also wouldn't accept forwarding emails from outlook because they use an old security method.
When Yahoo won't accept Outlook emails for security reasons I think it's best to stay away from Outlook.
I just set up a Gmail Email Account but still use Yahoo primarily only because everyone I know knows my address and it's still easy to use.
