Yahoo sold to Verizon

MikeDYur

Had an email account with Yahoo forever, and I don't like Verizon, I may have to change. Something new to remember.



http://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-buys-yahoo-5-billion-000000239.html

Buck Rogers

Annoying. And my other e-mail is sort-of sent via them.

Want one with Google?
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Strange? erco why did your robots run off to Philly?

kwinn

MikeDYur wrote: »

Had an email account with Yahoo forever, and I don't like Verizon, I may have to change. Something new to remember.



http://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-buys-yahoo-5-billion-000000239.html

Hmm. I have my email account with Yahoo as well. Wonder what will happen now.

abecedarian

I've had Verizon FIOS for years and Yahoo was the back end for email.

Now, Frontier is my FIOS provider and uses AOL for email back end... which Verizon has ownership in.

I'm confused.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I don't get Yahoo. I mean, how is there $5 billion of value left in that franchise? Like AOL, they're so last century.

-Phil

Martin_H

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »

I don't get Yahoo. I mean, how is there $5 billion of value left in that franchise? Like AOL, they're so last century.

-Phil

Believe it or not but there are still dial up users and AOL makes a fair amount of money on them. They've used that money to get into online video ads and apparently done well there too.

Heater.

Well, I thought Yahoo was kaput. I almost never hear about them or come across them.

But just now, following a Win 10 upgrade I get a nag box from Oracle to update Java. Blow me down but the default update changes your browsers home page and search to Yahoo.

I guess that is a new customer abuse to replace the old Ask.com malware that came with the Java installer.

Leon

BT (my ISP) uses Yahoo for email. It works quite well apart from a few quirks. I hope it doesn't change.

MikeDYur

The reason I don't like Verizon:

About thirty years ago we moved into an old house on this property, GTE was our local service, and ATT was our long distance service. We had them for fifteen years, and racked up some pretty big bill's, with dial-up and BBS' s, service was dependable. Fifteen years ago we moved into a new house on the same property. And about that time Verizon took over GTE. We started having trouble with our service after about five years,, especially during storms and power outages. The company blamed it on the old buried lines. GTE did install a junction box about a quarter mile away, and I think it was them that installed a battery back-up, to keep service operational during power outages, when Verizon took over, every time we had a bad storm or electrical outage, we would have a dead telephone line, Verizon did bury a new line between the junction box in front of the house, and the one a quarter mile away. And we were told that they replaced the battery back-up to, It worked for a while. Then we started having trouble again, service would go out for as much as a day or two. And Verizon would not compensate us for service outages. This went on till a couple years ago, and we decided to drop the land line service all together, and depend on two cellphones. After repeated attempts to stop service, they kust kept billing us for service we were not using, we didn't even have a phone plugged in. They just couldn't get it, we don't want you anymore. We finally got it straightened out, the house is quiet, no wrong numbers, no political calls, no telemarketers. I do miss having internet on something other than a cellphone, but the price involved for satellite internet service wasn't justifiable, and that was the only option, cable still isn't in this area.

lardom

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »

I don't get Yahoo. I mean, how is there $5 billion of value left in that franchise? Like AOL, they're so last century.

-Phil

I used to install CATV as a subcontractor for about 20 years in eleven states. I've seen poor rural farm areas that won't be upgraded to fiber-optic cable for high speed data.
Cable companies are regional monopolies. Their customers have nothing to compare their services with.
In a residential area I might switch an alarm system from the phone comany to the cable company. In a rural area I might install a cable box that was technically a 'dinosaur'.

Publison

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »

I don't get Yahoo. I mean, how is there $5 billion of value left in that franchise? Like AOL, they're so last century.

-Phil

I guess they have 40 billion to play with:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/business/dealbook/for-yahoo-question-is-what-to-do-with-40-billion-in-leftovers.html?_r=0

Chris Savage

I've had a Yahoo email address since they were available. I used to have the Yahoo home page as my home page in my browser. But lately I have deleted all but one of my email accounts and removed the app from my phone and tablet. The reason is that the app not only delivers ads right where the messages appear, causing you to accidentally click the ads more often than not, but it the app keeps displaying news items recently and there seems to be no way to disable it.

On the PC I login to my email account and then out when I am done because the Yahoo Mail page randomly plays ads at full volume even when the page is minimized. You can imagine when you're up at midnight working on something and suddenly your computer starts blaring out some advertisement waking others up. :frown:

RickB

The only thing of value for me is yahoo groups. There is a goldmine of info in the various forums such as LTspice, hp_agilent hardware, machine tool repair and use plus many others. It would be a travesty if that disappeared.

Rick

Publison

I belong to at least 6 Yahoo groups. Everyone went there from text based newsgroups.

The yahoo groups have been going downhill, so they may go away soon.

MikeDYur

Made NBC Nightly News.


https://www.yahoo.com/tech/yahoo-says-hack-hit-500-mn-users-maybe-184143037.html


More on that:


http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/technology/yahoo-data-breach/

msrobots

interesting that the data breach was in 2014 and they tell about it in 2016.

quite quick response to the customers.

Mike

erco

We had Verizon for phone & ISP forever, I primarily used their email xxxx@verizon.net which worked fine. Just this year, Verizon pulled out of our hood and Frontier Communications took over. They transferred my xxxx@verizon.net email to an AOL server, which is a complete joke. So I'm shasing that email out, but I still check in occasionally.

MikeDYur

msrobots wrote: »

interesting that the data breach was in 2014 and they tell about it in 2016.

quite quick response to the customers.

Mike

Verizon only learned about it a few days ago, and it is supposed to have a ripple effect for years.

Our bank account numbers were compromised a year ago, not knowing how it happened we still could have been vulnerable, over a problem that was already known.

EDIT: The bank had us believing that are cards had been scanned, bad consumer.

LAWYER!

I'm sure this will bring on a class action, time to start looking up the paperwork, Ugg. :depressed:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/technology/verizon-yahoo-data-breach/

Heater.

It occurred to me that Yahoo was on the way out when the Javascript guru Douglas Crockford left to work for Paypal. Then they stopped work on their Javascript user interface library YUI.