Yahoo now uses Oath

[jcarter]

I use Yahoo for a stock and fund list, which is kind of fun. Its almost realtime.
But with this new connection to Oath, and their agreement to share all their info with Verizon, Im a bit leery.
I could easily get along without Yahoo, I NEVER use their email but do use their Freecycle page for giving away stuff locally.

I guess I will just delete the stock part.

[Paddy]

QUOTE(jcarter @ Apr 30 2018, 04:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I use Yahoo for a stock and fund list, which is kind of fun. Its almost realtime.
But with this new connection to Oath, and their agreement to share all their info with Verizon, Im a bit leery.
I could easily get along without Yahoo, I NEVER use their email but do use their Freecycle page for giving away stuff locally.

I guess I will just delete the stock part.

Yahoo have always scraped data from users' email and every other Yahoo property - with the creation of Oath, the media arm of Verizon, and I suspect driven to a large extent by the new EU GDPR* they're now just a lot clearer about it. https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-aol-oath-pr...mails-messages/

You may have noticed a big uptick in revised Privacy notifications and changes to some websites asking you to agree to the use of cookies etc. That's all due to the much stricter rules imposed by the EU on websites that deal with EU residents. Note as well Facebook's rather transparent move of all NON-EU users' data and user contracts from Ireland (a member of the EU) to the US, which has some of the laxest privacy rules in the world.

Even Google has stopped snooping in Gmail to personalize ads - there was a big outcry about that, and they actually stopped towards the end of last year. Yahoo/Oath appears to be completely tone-deaf - which probably isn't a good thing long term, but we shall see. And I'm not too confident about their abilities to guard all that data either, given their past transgressions. While they were slapped with a $35 million fine for that, the breach affected 500 million people. That's 7¢ per user. Feeling warm and fuzzy yet? I thought not.

Rogers, my ISP, uses Yahoo email. So, if I want to keep using my Rogers email accounts, which I've had for 11 years now, I have to accept their privacy policies. I've never been happy with Yahoo - and now, I think I'll be moving my email to my domain, just as soon as things slow down enough for me to spend some time doing it all, as I have to figure out where all the various notification emails for things like domain registrations and hosting go and on and on...

*General Data Protection Regulation - going into effect May 25, 2018.

Oh yeah - and if all that isn't disturbing enough, there's this: https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/yahoo-email-spying.html

[jcarter]

Thank you, well explained.
Since Ive fudged my birth date, and stuff like that, then I probably will continue with Yahoo. Its just the almost real time stock thing and the local Freecycle thing which I use with Yahoo.
I did see the uptick in privacy stuff too.
My email is with Earthlink, as they let us keep our original email. My jcarter dot net email was with MacHighway and they dont have the filters that the big companies have for their email, so it got swamped with spam, so I quit using those. Which was sad, as they were unique.  Gmail is so good compared with some.  

Guess there is really no way to be really private, tho I dont really care, as Ive put nothing out on the web which I would not want seen. Even never put pictures of humans on FacePlant, just pictures of our pets and outdoors scenes.

The only thing which really bothered me, was I put up a video on YouTube of our puppy, and along the side with the 'similar' videos, was a man being horrid to his Labrador Retriever. I complained to YouTube and it was taken down eventually.