Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

While I agree with the sentiment.

Here's why you should not delete your yahoo account.

Once you delete your account, yahoo will make it available again to everyone.

This means that if you have not unlinked everything it can be used by others to reset accounts on services you forgot that you linked to your yahoo account.

Instead of deleting it, forward it all to another account and stop using it.

Do not forget to log in every 12 months to keep it active.

You can no longer set up mail forwarding with Yahoo.

When Yahoo released a ton of unused accounts, I grabbed my last name (which I use on every service). I occasionally get mail for that email address.

My Yahoo email is several years older than Gmail. It would take a LONG time to migrate to another service.

The Yahoo fiasco is horrible, but it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has heard of Snowden and his leaks. He talks about programs like this, though I don't remember the program's name. So, in other words, shouldn't we all have dumped Yahoo (and everyone else) in 2013? Also, it's rather irrelevant if you communicate mostly with other Yahoo, Gmail, etc. users because, unless you encrypt (good luck with getting your friends and family to encrypt) all messages, you still can't keep it private. So let's not pretend like this is a surprise or it's only Yahoo doing it. That last claim would be the most ridiculous.

Yahoo is simply the first company that we publicly know of that scans incoming emails. If the government can force Yahoo, they will force all of them.

Yahoo has more disgruntled former employees to reveal secrets than Google, Microsoft, etc...

Unfortunately, even though I would very much like to abandon mine (even though it's used only for some spammy registrations), email forwarding is not possible unless you pay them, which is obviously out of question.

So basically, the best I can do is start changing my associated email address at the services I care about that are still using my yahoo email address. After a while, my yahoo inbox will be 100% spam (as opposed to 90% spam now), so I'd be able to move on.