TUMBLR is cancer.
Tumblr – Heads-up for AT&T customers
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#12It would be interesting to know how many users are impacted. AT&T stats imply some astronomic numbers: https://www.att.com/Common/about_us/pdf/att_btn.pdf
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#13Is that legal ?
Why wouldn't it be?
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#14Is this designed to be a test of (lack of) net neutrality or something? Verizon now owns Tumblr. AT&T e-mail addresses will suddenly be blacklisted from logging in to Tumblr. Maybe I am reading too much in to this? Edit According to TechCrunch ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/25/take-the-oath/ ) it's all cool. Except that the explanation still makes no sense. It sounds like what they are saying is that (for example)…
This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts. Now they're not. SBC, prior to acquiring BellSouth and AT&T, originally contracted with Yahoo to run email/web portal service for their customers. The SBC/ATT email addresses were essentially premium Yahoo accounts but with SBC's domain, and had access to all…
This should be a top-level comment... and really, the only comment in this thread. Everything else is clickbait hysteria.
Re: Tumblr – Heads-up for AT&T customers
#15Is this designed to be a test of (lack of) net neutrality or something? Verizon now owns Tumblr. AT&T e-mail addresses will suddenly be blacklisted from logging in to Tumblr. Maybe I am reading too much in to this? Edit According to TechCrunch ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/25/take-the-oath/ ) it's all cool. Except that the explanation still makes no sense. It sounds like what they are saying is that (for example)…
This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts. Now they're not. SBC, prior to acquiring BellSouth and AT&T, originally contracted with Yahoo to run email/web portal service for their customers. The SBC/ATT email addresses were essentially premium Yahoo accounts but with SBC's domain, and had access to all…
Up until last year I was still on AT&T and using a dumbphone. The phone I had came with software to sync contacts with "the cloud". It was much easier to edit the list online (or even just as a CSV file) than on the phone itself. I never figured out how to access this list using the normal AT&T online portal, but I did find it through the Yahoo portal, if mostly by accident.
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#16Does anyone know if this will affect email access to the listed domains? My parents use an @bellsouth.net address as their primary email.
So long as they use the AT&T portal, they should be unaffected by the changes.
Re: Tumblr – Heads-up for AT&T customers
#17Is this designed to be a test of (lack of) net neutrality or something? Verizon now owns Tumblr. AT&T e-mail addresses will suddenly be blacklisted from logging in to Tumblr. Maybe I am reading too much in to this? Edit According to TechCrunch ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/25/take-the-oath/ ) it's all cool. Except that the explanation still makes no sense. It sounds like what they are saying is that (for example)…
This isn't a net neutrality thing, it's the breaking of a relationship that AT&T and Yahoo has had for 15 years. AT&T email addresses were once Yahoo accounts. Now they're not. SBC, prior to acquiring BellSouth and AT&T, originally contracted with Yahoo to run email/web portal service for their customers. The SBC/ATT email addresses were essentially premium Yahoo accounts but with SBC's domain, and had access to all…
I had an independent Yahoo email for years before having SBC/ATT. When I signed up they offered to tie my yahoo email into their system. What they didn't tell me was there is no way to unconnect when you cancel ATT services. So now, many years later, my login always redirects to an ATT/Yahoo! page for whatever I'm trying to view (news, email, etc.)