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Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by emcrazyone »

finishingmove wrote: post #10

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…

Some email services will allow you to "fetch" mail from another service. For example, I think it's possible with gmail to configure it to log in periodically to your yahoo account and fetch the email.

I run a hosting business and our email stack supports this feature. We use a combination of open source technologies to transfer email like imapsync for the initial transfer and then use a glorified version of fetchmail in a cron job.

Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by tracker1 »

dpark wrote: post #27
ryandrake wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't your E-mail address used as the username in most services' credentials? So you should know which services you registered using your Yahoo E-mail address because that's what you use to log in. Just go in and change them over to using your new address. For those few that don't use E-mail, take a Sunday afternoon and log in to each of them to check. Surely it couldn't be that difficult.

I have accounts at literally hundreds of sites, from credit cards and banks, public utilities, online stores, photo sites, discussion sites and forums, social networks, etc. I don't even have an exhaustive list of all the sites I've got accounts with. I certainly don't use them all frequently enough to know what my login account is set to and it would be a lot more than a Sunday morning for me to track them all down.

This is where having a password manager can really help, you just search your password manager database by username/email and go through that... Just the same, it's probably better to check as you log into them for a year or so before abandoning the account.

Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by phantom_oracle »

"...I care about my own privacy and security..." and yet your website has no encryption. Thus, when I enter my details on your form, it is being passed over the same internet in plaintext, thereby violating the exact "privacy and security" this "protest" aims to create.

Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by sk5t »

dredmorbius wrote: post #31
Silhouette wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an excellent argument for setting up e-mail using your own domain name, though, and for using that for all new accounts and transitioning existing accounts to your new e-mail address as soon as possible. The Internet works just fine when it's decentralised, but particularly with e-mail, relying on the big service providers (or an ISP-provided address, for that matter) immediately locks you into someone else's…

Although that also introduces risks. Losing control over your domain would be problematic. It happens. The argument for individual domains suggests itself, or an equivalent follows-the-person mechanism.

Yes! Reducing the risk of losing control of the domain is a great reason to prefer gmail.com, outlook.com, or another similarly theft-hard mail domain. Otherwise, if an attacker can trick the registrar or nameserver, it's game-over for all accounts that use mail or mail-dependent factors for authentication.

Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by codemac »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #43

"...I care about my own privacy and security..." and yet your website has no encryption. Thus, when I enter my details on your form, it is being passed over the same internet in plaintext, thereby violating the exact "privacy and security" this "protest" aims to create.

Well, I think the concept here is to publicly pledge to dump yahoo, in order to convince & pressure others to do the same. Saying you care about your privacy and security doesn't mean you remove yourself from all forms of public expression. It's the most basic form of free speech.

If you want to privately pledge, just write it down on a sticky note, and put it on your monitor.

Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by eatbitseveryday »

akerro wrote: post #44

Should I drop dropbox, google, apple, MS, CloudFare, LinkedIn, Ebay + paypal, amazon, MasterCard and Visa for the same reasons?

Doing so is just so increasingly limiting on our lives. What might be a more ideal scenario is to change the government's priorities, and enact strict(er) privacy laws that prevent these and other companies from sharing our data, or to be able to speak out when a hidden government department asks them to keep it under wraps.

Re: Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

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Post by dredmorbius »

kzisme wrote: post #35
dredmorbius wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's inbound only though, correct? You need another provider for sending.

If it's for something to sign up to get a free bonus or coupon I use "10 Minute Email" https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html?dswid=-8354

Oh, I'm quite familiar with mailinator on that end.
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